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| 16 | ->''"It was a mermaid. She was beautiful. Hair covering her breasts... every fucking time...."'' |
| 17 | -->-- '''Creator/RhysDarby''' |
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| 19 | A woman is topless or fully naked, and the writers don't want to (or can't) stick an [[SceneryCensor object into the scene to cover her up]]. Fortunately, her hair is somehow ''just'' long and thick enough to preserve her modesty. Sometimes NippleAndDimed is at play, with the hair only being enough to cover the nipples. |
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| 21 | Named for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva Lady Godiva,]] an eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who rode a horse through the city of Coventry to protest an oppressive tax. Legend has it that she rode naked; whether that means literally nude or "stripped" in some metaphorical sense is academic, since most artistic representations show the lady covered only with her long, flowing hair. (Never mind that the real Lady Godiva was, at the time of her alleged ride and taxes being lifted, [[FanDisservice rather an elderly woman by medieval standards]].) [[note]] On a side note, most of the citizens agreed to look away as she passed and not shame her; later, in a thematic painting, one man is shown stealing a look, who supposedly was struck blind for this. This is the origin of [[ThePeepingTom the term "peeping Tom"]]. [[/note]] |
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| 23 | [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Mermaids]] and similar half-human beings are typically depicted like this if the writer doesn't want to use an OrganicBra or SeashellBra. |
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| 25 | The rare male example uses his ''facial hair'' to cover his naughty bits. (The sheer length of beard required generally restricts this use to old hermits or shipwrecked castaways.) |
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| 27 | A character with PrehensileHair might do this on purpose. May be combined with CensorShadow, CensorSteam, CensorSuds, HandOrObjectUnderwear, or SceneryCensor. See ShouldersUpNudity if her hair is covering her nipples, yet her waist is left bare but unseen by the camera. Related to the TheissTitillationTheory (after all, what will happen if she turns her head just a bit too far, or the breeze picks up...?) |
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| 30 | !!Examples: |
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| 32 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 34 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 35 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKAW96N-Vms This banned commercial]] featuring a gay Adam with a straight Eve has one. Somewhat subverted, because, at one point, you could see one of her nipples. |
| 36 | * Then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHCvO5QOWtE this French ad]] for a body cream (along with SceneryCensor). |
| 37 | * The logo for Godiva Chocolatier shows a nude woman riding a horse, with one arm tucked across her chest and strands of hair falling down the other side of her chest and covering her crotch. |
| 38 | * A ''Joe and Petunia'' PSA about obeying flags indicating whether or not it was safe to swim had Joe observe a topless mermaid whose hair covered up her nipples. |
| 39 | * Several female celebrities who pose naked in PETA's anti-fur ads do this. |
| 40 | * [[http://www.northwestern.edu/nucuisine/images/newsletter/Starbucks-logo.gif The woman on the Starbucks logo]], depending on how you look at it. The logo is based on a 15th-century Norse woodcut of a siren, and [[http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/2005/06/the_evolution_o.html hasn't always been so SFW]]. The Pike Place Roast bags have the original logo. |
| 41 | [[/folder]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 44 | * Subverted in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Mei is shown fresh out of a bath with a strand of hair draped over each bare breasts, but the strands are too narrow to conceal her nipples. |
| 45 | * In ''Anime/CasshanRobotHunter'' when Luna is being prepped for execution her [[ShamefulStrip bodysuit is torn half off]], leaving one breast exposed. In most of the close-up scenes, her hair perfectly covers the nipple, though one shot does have the wind revealing it. |
| 46 | * Lafiel pulls this in one episode of ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars'' during her [[ShowerScene Bath Scene]]. When her hair's not strategically covering what needs to be covered, it's either camera angles or reflections of light. |
| 47 | * The [[CatGirl Puma Sisters]] of ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'' make deliberate use of their long manes of hair to better entice watchers during their [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn striptease]] in OVA 1. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil'': Jashin is a [[SnakePeople lamia]] whose upper body is almost always uncovered. Her hair covers her breasts. |
| 49 | * In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Mavis Vermilion's HumanPopsicle physical body, as [[spoiler:Lumen Histoire]] is completely naked, with only her hair to cover her up. |
| 50 | * A [[http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/AthenAltena/32f88ccd0b3f9abcaba7729b5251fd4a.jpg promotional image]] (probably not work safe, though you obviously can't actually see anything) for ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' showed both Rin and Rider with Godiva Hair. A bit more justified in Rider's case since her hair is practically long enough to trip over. |
| 51 | * In the ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' manga, Rin's nipple is just ''barely'' covered by a thin strand of hair. |
| 52 | * Miaka and Soi have Godiva Hair in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', and in the former's case, we've also got Godiva Vines. Yui, whose hair is much shorter than the other two, is less lucky. |
| 53 | * While ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'''s regular series had very little fanservice, being meant for kids, apparently someone's mind changed when it came time to make the OVA conclusion, and both Mikoto and Swan are depicted nude with Godiva Hair at least once each. There's a lot more breast bounce and clothing damage, as well. |
| 54 | * Parodied in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', the Shinsengumi's Victory Goddess appears before Hijikata, Okita and Kondo in this appearance... only to be promptly handcuffed by Hijikata for public exposure. |
| 55 | * One "How to Draw Manga" book called ''Girl's Life Illustration File'' has a section about tactfully rendering nudes. This is given as an option. |
| 56 | * Taken to an absurd level in the ''Anime/{{Grenadier}}'' manga. Someone tries to sabotage Rushuna's participation in a swimming contest by giving her a dissolving bikini. She still wins, and as she gets out of the water we see she's tied her hair into an improvised sling bikini. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': Triela in a flashback when she first meets Hilshire in the hospital after having her traumatic memories wiped by the Social Welfare Agency. Something of a FanDisservice moment as she's seriously underage, though her nudity is probably meant to portray her child's innocence, which is subverted as unknown to Hilshire she's been programmed as a cyborg killing machine. A contemporary ShowerScene plays the {{fanservice}} straight, despite her being 14-15 years old at the time. |
| 58 | * Most long-haired female characters in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'', but especially Kyoko, Ritsuko-sensei, and Hayame. Notably, Yukime has short hair, but for very thin strands that run down her temples and are ''just barely enough'' to cover the [[NippleAndDimed interesting parts]]. |
| 59 | * In the religious film ''Anime/HermesWindsOfLove'', the title character enters the Spirit World and meets a mermaid named Delmone, whose long blonde hair covers her breasts. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' got away with showing the girls naked in episode 6, by having them walk past the screen in profile and using carefully placed locks of their hair, to preserve their modesty as they were headed for the bath. They also used a combination of [[CensorSuds lather]] and the girls' hair while they were bathing. |
| 61 | * In ''Literature/{{Katanagatari}}'', considering the sheer length of Togame's hair, it's actually harder to ''not'' use this trope when she's naked. |
| 62 | * This is a trait of any Creator/KenAkamatsu manga (''Manga/LoveHina'', ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', etc.). The character's hair will usually cover where her nipples ''[[BarbieDollAnatomy would]]'' be. Strangely, sometimes his characters DO have nipples when wearing clothes or hair. They just disappear when exposed. There is a rare example of it happening with ''braids'' in chapter 251 of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. |
| 63 | * Creator/LeijiMatsumoto uses this several times [[Anime/{{Leijiverse}} across various works]], and he even admitted that the origin of the long hair that eventually became his SignatureStyle when drawing women was initially to cover up nudity. |
| 64 | * Used in the anime adaptation of ''Anime/TheLittleMermaid'', as Marina and her sisters are topless, although Marina's nipples can be seen at some points. The rest of the mer-race avert this apparently, since in one scene that shows not only Marina and her sisters, but their father, grandmother, and various members of the mer-court, Marina and her sisters are the only mermaids topless while every other mermaid and merman wears some kind of robe that has an open slit for the tail and fins to stick out of. |
| 65 | * In the series ''Anime/MarineBoy'', the mermaid Neptina wears nothing; her breasts are concealed by her long hair. |
| 66 | * Doppel the shapeshifter from ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' uses her long white hair to create the clothes for her disguises. Being a TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter, she makes it so that her naughty bits are always covered by her hair from every angle. Since she's actually an EldritchAbomination masquerading as a girl, this proves easy for her. |
| 67 | * Used in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' when [[spoiler:Kabuto makes a naked manifestation of Tayuya of the Sound Five [[BodyHorror protrude out of his body when using her jutsu]]]]. |
| 68 | * Played for horror in episode 24 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Asuka is lying in a destroyed house's bathtub naked after having crossed the DespairEventHorizon and ran away from home. Her breasts are covered by hair while the lower regions are submerged in murky/bloody water (it's implied that she cut her wrists). |
| 69 | * The manga version of ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'': In one chapter, Nepgear, Rom, Ram and Uni are accidentally regressed into babies, so when they turn back to their normal ages, they're obviously naked. Fortunately, all of the girls' sensitive areas are hidden, including part of Uni's hair hiding her breasts. |
| 70 | * When Boa Hancock met Luffy in ''Manga/OnePiece'', she spends a lot of time [[NakedFirstImpression naked]] or topless for [[EmbarrassingTattoo plot-related reasons]]. Causing her to be covered up like this pretty much whenever her back isn't turned. |
| 71 | * ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' takes this to rather goofy extremes, since Panty uses her underwear as a weapon. So she fights several battles while bottomless, and somehow her hair manages to keep everything censored. |
| 72 | * Melona in ''Anime/QueensBlade'' unusually combines this with PrehensileHair. While her hair is covering up her naughty bits, it also has a pair of hands on the end, meaning she's groping herself. Weird. |
| 73 | * Happens on and off in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', mostly with Shampoo. This isn't surprising, considering how much nudity is in the series. What is surprising is that it's ''Shampoo'', the least inhibited and most sexually aggressive of the female cast (sometimes even beyond the [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl not-so-Innocent Fanservice]] GenderBender) who is allowed this modesty. On the other hand, among the girls that play MsFanservice most often (mostly female Ranma and Akane), Shampoo is the only one with hair long enough to pull it off (at least until a dead-ringer for female Ranma, without her hair in a pigtail, shows up for a couple of pages). |
| 74 | * In ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'', Arte the mermaid's hair stays in place even when she's swimming underwater. |
| 75 | * Near the end of the ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' season 1 opening, Moka is seen floating [[InvertedPortrait upside down]] naked underwater, modesty preserved by her long hair. |
| 76 | * In the ''Anime/SailorMoon R'' movie, there is the Kisenian Flower villainess whose hair perpetually covers her otherwise naked chest. |
| 77 | * Used a lot in ''Anime/ShatteredAngels''. Since female characters are often naked in the anime and seem incapable of bathing themselves (they require another naked female to bathe them), their front fringes serve the useful purpose of barely covering their nipples. |
| 78 | * ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': In the first half of the ''Alicization'' arc, Quinella fights Kirito, Eugeo and Alice completely nude. Her long hair is used to cover her naughty bits. |
| 79 | * In the "Blues Notes Blues" chapters of ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'', [[spoiler:Niche's sister]] does this with a twist. At Lag's request to PleasePutSomeClothesOn, she wraps her PrehensileHair around her bikini style. |
| 80 | * ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': |
| 81 | ** Ryoko of does this quite often when depicted in the bath. Every so often, they'd actually show her chest completely, and she [[BarbieDollAnatomy just wouldn't have nipples]]. Ryoko's hair isn't even all that long, especially compared to some other characters in ''Tenchi Muyo!'', but she has rather conveniently-placed long sidelocks that fall right on top of her breasts. |
| 82 | ** Averted in the DVD version, at least, of the ''Tenchi Muyo!'' OVA, in which Ryoko's nipples are indeed visible in scenes in which she is naked. |
| 83 | * Yoko Littner from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' does this in the movie, in a suitably epic battle against Adiane the Elegant. Hint? The hair's not just for decoration. |
| 84 | * ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' makes full use of this, with the amazing frequency the girls in its cast have to get naked. These scenes were dialed back (dialed up?) in the tankobon, as well as the manga's [[HotterAndSexier relaunch]] ''To Love Ru Darkness'' where if you go one chapter without seeing a nipple something is amiss. |
| 85 | * ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'' does it with ''rays of moonlight''. Also with actual hair in the anime. |
| 86 | * The girl whose tears turn into a crimson pearl in ''Manga/XxxHolic'' which Watanuki intends to give to the Spider Lady turns out to have Godiva Hair when her clothes fall off and she begins crying. |
| 87 | * In the original (unedited) version of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', there are a few female monsters that are naked, covering themselves with their hair (like Water Omatics and Dreamsprite). The dub version covers them with swimsuits. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Arts]] |
| 91 | * OlderThanSteam: The famous 1486 painting ''Art/TheBirthOfVenusBotticelli'' is a strong early candidate for this trope, with the nude Aphrodite gathering her hair to cover her groin. (She ''could'' have covered her chest too, but hey, [[ItsNotPornItsArt this is art]]). |
| 92 | * Pretty much every depiction of Eve in the past couple centuries. |
| 93 | * The myth of Lady Godiva was a popular subject for painters and sculptors for centuries. |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': |
| 98 | ** Infidel's [[ArtificialHuman homunculi]] appear as naked women with flowing hair. |
| 99 | ** In "The Gordian Knot", Astra's former boyfriend Gavrad is dating Carissa, an orange humanoid alien with floor-length hair and wearing only a bikini bottom. |
| 100 | * Franchise/TheDCU: |
| 101 | ** ComicBook/{{Starfire}} uses this every so often, particularly when Dick Grayson discovers her in the shower. |
| 102 | ** There have been three women who went by the name "Godiva" -- and only one of them, an enemy of the ComicBook/TeenTitans, ''doesn't'' fit this. |
| 103 | *** The first was a member of the ComicBook/GlobalGuardians. Like the before mentioned Medusa of the Inhumans, she had PrehensileHair. |
| 104 | *** The third appeared ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' as one of the enemies of The Maximums (an [[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimates]] parody), more specifically, she's a parody of Enchantress (the enemy of ComicBook/TheMightyThor, not the ComicBook/SuicideSquad and ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}} member) and like the legends about the real Godiva, she is depicted as nude except for her ridiculously long hair, which manages to keep her bits covered, even when she's fighting. |
| 105 | ** Knockout of the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' once emerged from a shower completely naked, with only with a few strands of hairs covering her nipples and groin. |
| 106 | ** One issue of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'' opens with Diana waking up to Ares paying her a visit in her bedroom (no, not like that), and because Diana apparently sleeps au natural she only has Godiva Hair covering her. Oddly, despite having the God of War and major {{Jerkass}} Ares right in front of her, she doesn't make any attempts to cover up, though that could be her Amazonian upbringing. |
| 107 | ** ''ComicBook/Batman66'': "Chandell's Chanteuse" has Siren expose Batman to a hallucinogen, which causes him to see Siren as a topless mermaid with her breasts obscured by her long hair. |
| 108 | ** The first issue of the ''ComicBook/HarleyAndIvy'' miniseries has a scene where Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are in Arkham Asylum's showers, with one panel showing Ivy sulking while portions of her hair cover up her breasts. |
| 109 | ** ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'': One shot in issue #2 has Ember lying at Brother Night's couch nude save for her hair that is covering her breasts. Given Brother Night's disheveled clothes it's implied they just finished having off-screen sex. |
| 110 | * Timmain in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' qualifies when she's not being a wolf. From time to time, so does her polar counterpart Winnowill. |
| 111 | * ComicBook/{{Empowered}} also has long hair. Good for her, as often as her super-suit rips. |
| 112 | * ''ComicBook/TheFoxHunt's'' [[EvilSorceress Dream Demon]] wears nothing except a makeshift skirt. Her green hair is ''just'' long enough to cover her "naughty" bits. |
| 113 | * Parodied and lampshaded in the French comic book ''ComicBook/TrollsDeTroy'' (a spin-off of ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}''): the (human) heroine Waha is once changed by magic into a (nude) mermaid; the villain points out that she doesn't need any SeashellBra, since it is a "genetic trait" of mermaids' hair to automatically cover their breasts. And it is actually always the case -- ''even when she's hanging upside-down''. |
| 114 | * Franchise/MarvelUniverse: |
| 115 | ** ''ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas'': Venus, being rather... liberal, spends a few issues like this, but eventually puts on some clothes to "help blend in with the rest of the team". |
| 116 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'': During a discussion about nudity, Morph turns into Godiva herself, horse and hair and all. |
| 117 | ** ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'': Medusa of the Inhuman Royal Family does this. A lot. She has [[JustifiedTrope really, really long prehensile hair]]. |
| 118 | ** ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': In ''Thor'' #485, Lorelei, younger sister of The Enchantress, seduces magically [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]] (like part of a plan) using a vision of her naked with just her long red hair to cover. |
| 119 | ** ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'': Done in issue #36, as Wolverine corners Jessica Drew in the shower to question her about how much she told Stark about the Skrulls. |
| 120 | ** ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'': In the first issue, Reed Richards is performing an autopsy on the Skrull who'd posed as Elektra. An overhead shot gives a full view of her body, with a convenient light blocking her crotch and Godiva Hair over her breasts. |
| 121 | ** ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]], not caring for most people's [[InnocentFanserviceGirl silly nudity taboo]], is frequently hair-clad (but more frequently [[CensorSteam wind effect-clad]].) |
| 122 | * There was an unpublished ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' comic story titled "Powerbuff Girl" (illustrated by Christopher Cook), which featured the Powerpuff Girls getting nude (Bubbles was willingly going naked as a phase, while Blossom and Buttercup lose their clothes to a swarm of moths and are forced to fight a trio of naked criminals called the Mean Streaks in their birthday suits). Blossom's nudity is covered up by her long hair after Buttercup takes her bow to use to cover up her own nudity. |
| 123 | * The Guardian of Keys in ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}'' appears wearing only this and a golden belt with an oversized buckle. Somewhat subverted later when some nude females do appear in the series. This is mostly due to the publishing in weekly format in ''Tintin'', which was a Catholic magazine. The restrictions were dropped when it switched to hardcover albums. |
| 124 | * The miniseries ''Kirby: Genesis - Dragonsbane'' depicts Circe as topless, albeit with her breasts obscured by a bra fashioned from her own hair. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 128 | * Martine, a [[LaResistance French Resistance]] fighter in the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII flashbacks of ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'' is covered by her long hair when she goes skinny dipping. Her hair seems much shorter on dry land. |
| 129 | * ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId''. The Spook is a rare male version, being covered in excessive hair as he's been in prison for so long (and has probably worn out his clothes too). He's said to have tried to make a rope out of his own hair to climb out of his cell, but by the time he'd finished there was nothing left to escape! |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 133 | * In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's [[https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm003.html "Mary's Child,"]] the heroine uses her very long hair to protect herself from the elements after her clothing falls apart. |
| 134 | -->When the sun shone warmly again she went outside and sat in front of the tree. Her long hair covered her on all sides like a cloak. |
| 135 | * In "Literature/TheNixInTheMillPond", the nixie's long and flowing hair cascades down her shoulders and conceals her naked body. |
| 136 | -->Turning around, he saw a beautiful woman rising slowly out of the water. Her long hair, which she was holding above her shoulders with her soft hands, flowed down on both sides, and covered her white body. He saw very well that she was the nixie of the pond, and he was so frightened that he did not know whether to run away or stay where he was. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 140 | * In Chapter 52 of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', there's a scene of Misty, Iris and Anabel having a night talk in their bedroom. Both Misty and Anabel are wearing their sleeping clothes, while Iris is only covered by her hair (which implies she SleepsInTheNude), and the narration states they locked the room's door just as a precaution. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 144 | * The goddess Hecate, in the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' film ''[[WesternAnimation/HellboyAnimated Blood and Iron]]''. |
| 145 | * This happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'' after the Unicorn turns into Princess Amalthea. |
| 146 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' was going to use this, and did use it through the storyboarding and the initial pencil tests. It was only abandoned when the colour tests showed the concept to be unworkable without redesigning almost every underwater shot. SeashellBra were used instead. |
| 147 | * ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': One of the mermaids who live at Mermaid's Lagoon (more specifically, the redhaired one who is bathing at the start of the sequence the mermaids show up in) sports this. The others have either [[SeashellBra seashell]] or starfish bras, and there's one who uses a white flower necklace to cover her chest. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 151 | * ''Film/SixtyEightKill'': Violet has her long hair hanging down over her breasts when she's topless and seducing Chip. |
| 152 | * In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', Creator/UmaThurman in the ''The Birth of Venus'' scene (based on the painting referred to under Arts, which is also referenced on a playing card later in the film). Subverted in that her hair doesn't ''hide'' anything. |
| 153 | * The film version of ''Film/{{Aquamarine}}'' shows the eponymous mermaid with her long hair covering her modesty whenever she's in mermaid form. Even more surprising in that this is a PG-rated kids' movie. |
| 154 | * ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'': One of the pictures in Alicia's ShrineToSelf has her posing topless, with her hair draped down over her chest. |
| 155 | * Creator/BrookeShields' hair was apparently glued to her breasts during some scenes of ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1980'' in order to satisfy censors. |
| 156 | * The naked VirginSacrifice strapped to the altar in ''Film/CurseOfTheCrimsonAltar'' has her modesty protected by her long blonde hair covering her breasts. |
| 157 | * The PG-rated ''Film/DateWithAnAngel'' uses this technique when the Angel bathes in a forest lake. |
| 158 | * Australian swimming champion Annette Kellermann in the 1916 film ''Daughter of the Gods''. This caused a great deal of controversy at the time. The film is now lost and only publicity photos survive. |
| 159 | * ''Film/DownWithLove'': The topless beatnik girl at the party who seduces Catch has her modesty preserved by her long brown hair. |
| 160 | * [[NotSafeForWork Subverted horribly]] in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' with [[http://postimage.org/image/1u71mthhg/ one]] [[http://postimage.org/image/1u6zza4zo/ such]] [[http://postimage.org/image/1u6wo7g04/ vampire]]. |
| 161 | * Mina, when she and Hansel go SkinnyDipping in the healing pond, in ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters''. |
| 162 | * ''Film/JennifersBody'': Jennifer, before she eats Jonas, is completely naked, with only her hair covering her breasts (barely). |
| 163 | * ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'': The eldritch creatures' hair artfully clings to their breasts just enough so their nipples have a covering. |
| 164 | * Naturally, the 1955 film ''Film/LadyGodivaOfCoventry'' features this: Maureen O'Hara as the eponymous noblewoman wear tresses long and luxuriant enough to cover her body entirely. |
| 165 | * ''Film/LandOfTheLost'': Cha-ka's wives, who are {{nubile savage}}s, have only brief loincloths and long black hair which covers both of their breasts on either side. |
| 166 | * In ''Film/LianeJungleGoddess'', Lianne is introduced topless, with her long blonde hair flowing over her breasts. However, it often does a less-than-adequate job of concealing them. |
| 167 | * ''Film/TheLoveWitch'': Elaine wears a long wig over her natural hair (which doesn't reach down this far) that manages to cover her nipples while she's topless (mostly-they do show once briefly). Another female Wiccan also has this with her long hair once. |
| 168 | * Creator/LindsayLohan after she wakes up nude (in a church!) in ''Film/{{Machete}}''. |
| 169 | * ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'': Judith has her long hair covering her breasts when Brian's mother discovers them after they have sex. |
| 170 | * ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'': |
| 171 | ** Anck-su-namun, Imhotep's mistress, is introduced wearing [[{{Stripperriffic}} strategically-placed paint and clothing]], with nothing covering her breasts except for her long hair. |
| 172 | ** ''Film/TheScorpionKing'' has a scene with Cassandra the Seer popping up out of a pool of water in a Godiva Hair moment. |
| 173 | * ''Film/TheParanormalDiariesClophill'': Late in the movie, the crew come across [[spoiler:a bunch of cultist preparing to sacrifice a naked woman. Said woman has her hair covering her nipples]]. |
| 174 | * ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1998'': While sitting on the roof of the opera house, the Phantom has a vision of a naked Christine wrapped in her own hair descending from the sky. |
| 175 | * ''Film/{{Pharaoh}}'': Part of Kama's nonstop Fanservice routine is wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and an elaborate wig with two strategically placed hunks of hair. She's a HoneyPot meant to get the crown prince of Egypt to be more friendly to her Phoenician countrymen. |
| 176 | * Syrena and some of the other mermaids in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'' have this. Except for when they have BarbieDollAnatomy instead. |
| 177 | * In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', when Marian steps out of the bath. The camera's primary attention may be on her chastity belt, but her Godiva Hair coverage for her breasts. |
| 178 | * ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'': when Princess Farah (Jayne Seymour) and Dione (Taryn Power) have finished bathing in a natural pool, Farah is nude and brushing her long hair, with it covering all of the important bits. |
| 179 | * ''Film/SoundOfMyVoice'': When Maggie tells the story of how she woke up in a bathtub with amnesia, she's seen walking around the hotel room with her long blonde hair covering her breasts. |
| 180 | * In ''Film/SpaceMutiny'', one of the BridgeBunnies has such long hair and such a skimpy uniform that Mike and the Bots immediately assume she's nude. |
| 181 | * In the Disney+ version of ''Film/{{Splash}}'', hair covering Madison's privates is used via CGI for censorship and to keep a PG rating. |
| 182 | * ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': When the T-X arrives naked in the present, its breasts are concealed by its hair. |
| 183 | * Izanami in ''Film/TheThreeTreasures'', who is completely topless (but not completely naked; she has a pair of shorts on) and her hair covers her breasts. |
| 184 | * [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Alyda]] in ''Film/TheUnnamableII'' spends a good portion of the film like this due to the fact that she hates/fears clothing. |
| 185 | * In ''Film/WildInTheStreets'', Max's girlfriend Sally does this during her topless or nude scenes. |
| 186 | * ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'': In ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'', Elena is left clad in pajama bottoms and hair when {{Franchise/Zorro}} [[ClothingDamage slices her nightshirt off]]. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 190 | * The Australian children's book ''Literature/BarebumBilly'' has the breasts of Billy's wife Millie obscured by her long hair on most of the pages that depict her naked. |
| 191 | * A 1930's sci-fi pulp ''Literature/TheBeetleHorde'' by Victor Rosseau had a variation where a NubileSavage wore a garment woven from her own hair. |
| 192 | * In some illustrated children's editions of Literature/TheBible, Eve is portrayed with this to preserve her modesty. |
| 193 | * Marlowe remarks upon a stained glass window featuring a woman with long and convenient hair in ''Literature/TheBigSleep'' by Creator/RaymondChandler. See Mary Magdalen under Myths and Religion below. |
| 194 | * It also features in a photography session in Andy Looney's ''Literature/TheEmptyCity''. Chapter 95, to be precise: [[http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/EmptyCity/chapter95.html Link here.]] |
| 195 | * Subverted in ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'', as Christopher discovers that the mermaids' attempts to use Godiva Hair are not always successful. |
| 196 | * There are some illustrations in ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'' of Himeko and Misaki in the bath together. In said illustrations, Himeko's hair is always coming down over her nipples, hiding them from view. Misaki's hair is too short for this to work with her, however, so her nipples tend to be hidden by her arms, the camera angle, and/or good old CensorSteam. |
| 197 | * Invoked for drama in ''Literature/HeraldsOfRhimn'' when Crislie reluctantly confronts her new lycanthropy. |
| 198 | --> Curled up on the forest floor without her clothes, Crislie took some solace in using her knee-length hair for a covering. Some of the other wyfwolves did the same thing with their flowing manes. When they did so, they seemed unearthly and striking. When Crislie did it, she felt embarrassed, and also unhappy about the dirt and twigs she was getting in her locks. |
| 199 | ---> Ember Warrior, Ch 22 |
| 200 | * Creator/HansChristianAndersen's ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''. However, the famous statue in Copenhagen, which is one of the city's main tourist attractions, noticeably does not: she has her hair in a braid on her back. |
| 201 | * ''Literature/ThePurpleCloud'': When Adam first meets Leda, who has grown up as a WildChild AfterTheEnd, her hair falls below her hips and acts as a 'garment to her nakedness.' |
| 202 | * Appears briefly in ''Literature/TheRemarkableLifeAndTimesOfElizaRose'' by Mary Hooper. Eliza is dressed as a mermaid for the Midsummer Fair in London and wears her hair like this. |
| 203 | * ''Literature/TheSagaOfRagnarLodbrok'': To fulfill Ragnar's request of meeting him "neither dressed nor undressed", Kraka goes to him covered only in a fishnet while her long hair makes sure that she is nevertheless "bare in no place". |
| 204 | * In Creator/HRiderHaggard's ''Literature/{{She}}'', She's hair is long enough and thick enough that it doesn't just cover her nipples, it covers everything. She fastens a belt around her hair and wears it like a dress. |
| 205 | * Holo from ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'' has long hair with front bangs long enough that they usually cover her breasts. |
| 206 | * ''Literature/TheSpiritThief'': The Powers all have hair long enough to cover them completely, so Benehime often wears nothing but it. |
| 207 | * ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' (fourth book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): Lezian the Pursuer is, for all practical purposes, a demon with a nasty strategy based on TeleportSpam. He [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou can't teleport anything but himself]], so the only clothes he wears are his own hair. |
| 208 | * In the ''Literature/{{Thora}}'' books, Thora's mermaid mother Halla is illustrated as having this. |
| 209 | * Subverted in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', when one of the main characters is traveling through a rather rowdy festival and notices that a number of women attempting this don't have long enough hair to pull this off. We ([[{{Literature}} obviously]]) don't get to see anything. |
| 210 | * Played straight in ''Literature/WheresWally'' [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/6)%20Topless%20Mermaids.jpg of all things]]. Made even better by the fact that [[CovertPervert this is the place Waldo chooses to "hide"]]. |
| 211 | * Played straight and made into a pun all at the same time in the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series with Godiva Goblin. Her hair has a special talent of covering up ''exactly'' where it needs to in order to not violate the "Adult Conspiracy" (who keep children from learning the secret of "Summoning the Stork"). |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 215 | * Used in several photo shoots on ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel''. |
| 216 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': In "The Bare Witch Project" the actual Lady Godiva is magically summoned to the present just before she was about to start her ride, so of course she's "dressed" this way. At the end of the episode Phoebe decides to protest a restaurant's policy on breastfeeding by doing a ride of her own using a long blonde wig to mimic Godiva. |
| 217 | * An early David Copperfield magic special included a trick in which he removed a bikini top from a poster of Loni Anderson. Loni (on stage) then removed the hair clips from her poster, causing a Godiva effect on the poster. |
| 218 | * ''Series/{{Defiance}}'': Stahma has this frequently in her bathing or sex scenes, either with her long hair covering her nipples, or strings of beads that she wears. |
| 219 | * ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': One scene of Mysaria in the nude has her hair cover her breasts. |
| 220 | * ''Series/ICarly'': A non-nude version was used for Sam in "iQuit iCarly", when she wore a purple skintight bodysuit, as part of their usual attempt to hide the fact that the actress is a female and actually has boobs now. Carly however, wasn't required to do this. |
| 221 | * ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': Salindra in "Wizard" when she's gone into the underworld has her long hair falling down over her breasts. |
| 222 | * ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'': In one episode Lucifer and Ella Lopez have to go undercover at a nudist resort. Ella uses her long hair to cover her breasts while walking around and some handy SceneryCensor covers up the rest of her. |
| 223 | * ''Series/{{MASH}}''; [[WholesomeCrossdresser Klinger]] did this once in an effort to get discharged after he believes he mistakenly re-enlisted. Col. Potter laughs at him before revealing [[spoiler: he tricked Klinger into taking the Presidential Oath of Office instead as a means of stalling for time]]. |
| 224 | * Another non-nude version is used in ''Series/ModernFamily'' with Alex Dunphy. The character's hair is always worn down over her chest in an effort to hide [[Creator/ArielWinter her actress's]] developing figure. |
| 225 | * The "nude lady" at the end of the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' motor insurance sketch. |
| 226 | * The first elimination challenge of season three of ''Shear Genius'' was ALL about this trope. |
| 227 | * [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarahconnorchronicles-cameron1.jpg This promotional image]] for ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. |
| 228 | * Apparently averted in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', when Gerri asks what did they do for village fĂŞte the year before her arrival in the village... to clarify: [[spoiler:they were disappointed because this trope wasn't invoked; the sight of the elderly Letitia Cropley naked probably required the application of copious amounts of BrainBleach.]] |
| 229 | -->'''Owen:''' We reenacted Lady Godiva; everyone was so disappointed.\ |
| 230 | '''Gerri:''' What, Lady Godiva in a body-stocking?\ |
| 231 | '''Frank:''' No! She was completely nude!\ |
| 232 | '''Gerri:''' Wow!\ |
| 233 | '''[[spoiler:Cropley]]:''' Well, I didn't have time to grow my hair long enough, you see... |
| 234 | * ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Whenever Xena finds herself on the receiving end of a (often hilarious) ShamefulStrip, her hair is generally long enough to cover her breasts. Not that it makes her sexual humiliations any easier to endure. |
| 235 | * In the episode "The JerseyDevil" of ''Series/TheXFiles'', Claire Stansfield (who played a Neanderthal woman) was required to have her hair tied over her breasts in many shots to keep the Creator/{{Fox}} censors happy. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 239 | * ''Creator/{{ESPN}} the Magazine'' recently ran a Body Issue featuring athletes of both genders in nothing or almost nothing along with articles on what makes some people genetically inclined to be successful athletes. Not surprisingly, two of the female athletes had this. |
| 240 | %%* Cindy Margolis often used this. |
| 241 | * Playboy playmate Debra Jo Fondren was known for her extremely long hair, which allowed her to appear fully nude even on the cover of the magazine with this trope in effect. |
| 242 | * After being evicted from ''Series/BigBrother'' in 2006, Nikki Grahame did an interview with ''The Sun'', where the front cover saw her posing completely nude, with her waist-length hair covering everything. |
| 243 | * Creator/HollyMarieCombs noted that her only real {{Fanservice}} photoshoot was appearing on the cover of ''Stuff'' magazine topless, with her long hair just about covering everything. She however mocks it for blatant photoshop to [[BuxomBeautyStandard make her breasts bigger]] and [[StatuesqueStunner and to make her appear taller]]. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 247 | * The cover of Music/AyumiHamasaki's album ''[=LOVEppears=]'' (she even used to provide the page image for some time). |
| 248 | * Peter and Gordon's 1966 hit "Lady Godiva" has the title figure's nude ride witnessed by a porno director, who subsequently offers to make her a star. In the final verse it's revealed she's gotten her hair cut, "now she can afford her clothes". |
| 249 | * The cover of Ruslana's ''Wild Dances'' album has her topless, wearing only gauntlets and a rag for a skirt. Naturally, her long, black hair is covering her breast (in fact, you have to look pretty hard to even figure out that she is indeed topless). Probably done to go with the whole "wild" theme. |
| 250 | * The cover of Music/{{Kelela}}'s ''Take Me Apart.'' |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 254 | * ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'': The music video of "Flower of the Plateau" has the spotlight character, Mikulia Greeonio, naked but kept modest by her teal hair. Oddly enough, later down the video, her lower bits are shown, albeit mutated into a flower, making this a selective example of censorship. |
| 255 | * A dancer in Music/Maroon5's "Moves Like Jagger" seems to only be covered by her hair. |
| 256 | * The music video for Music/AlanisMorissette's "Thank U" shows her completely nude, with her long hair covering her breasts (her lower nudity was [[{{Pixellation}} digitally blurred out]]). According to Pop-Up Videos, the lower nudity was already covered with a latex codpiece, but that just wasn't enough for the censors to let slide. |
| 257 | * Used in the Music/BritneySpears music video "Everytime". |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 261 | * The trope is named for Lady Godiva, the 11th-century [[UsefulNotes/AngloSaxons Anglo-Saxon]] noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked on a white horse through Coventry, England, to get rid of the unfair taxes imposed by her family. The first description of the story comes from the 13th-century chronicle ''Flores Historiarum'', which states that her hair "covered the whole of her body like a veil". However, the paintings made in medieval times portray her with more graphic nudity and normal, shoulder-length hair, with the Godiva Hair paintings not coming around until centuries later. Some scholars have speculated that there might have been some confusion in the telling of the tale -- that the original story might have said she went out ''without her clothes'', that is, dressed in a shift like a religious penitent, rather than ''naked'' (which would not make much sense as a protest). On the other hand, there's little historical evidence to support the story having happened at all, naked or not. Note also the 200-year gap between the historical Godiva and the first appearance of the legend; most scholars do not regard the event as actual history. |
| 262 | * [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akka_Mahadevi Akka Mahadevi]] was an Indian poet from the 12th century with a similar legend. |
| 263 | * According to legend, St. Agnes of Rome was condemned to be dragged naked through the streets to a brothel, but when she prayed, her hair grew to cover her. |
| 264 | [[/folder]] |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 267 | * The ''Pinball FX 3'' version of ''Pinball/CirqusVoltaire'' alters the appearance of a particular female performer on the backglass such that her hair obstructs cleavage as a censorship measure to maintain an ESRB rating of Everyone 10+. |
| 268 | * The killer mermaids of ''Pinball/{{Fathom}}'' all have long flowing hair that conveniently keeps their breasts covered. |
| 269 | * One of the scantily-clad groupies in Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/GunsNRosesDataEast Guns N' Roses]]'' is shown with Godiva Hair to cover herself, having lost her bikini top. |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 273 | * ''{{Wrestling/GLOW}}'''s Godiva character was based on the lady herself, but her look could only evoke it, since it would be impossible to wrestle completely nude and not expect hair to come out of place and show everything. She wrestled in a bikini that looked like it was made of flower petals, but still had the long hair covering herself during her entrance. |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 277 | * The cover of ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' has this for just the boobs of the random slave-woman on the cover. If you ''saw'' said cover and didn't come to a few conclusions about this game's attitude towards women, you have no-one to blame but yourself. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 281 | * The [[http://micechat.com/forums/disneyland-resort/96720-redheaded-pirate-painting-disneyland.html#post2808525 bar painting of a pirate lass]] in "Pirates of the Caribbean" at Disneyland is topless with just a few wisps of Godiva Hair. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 285 | * [[spoiler:Jacqli/Mir]]'s [[spoiler:Miros]] costume in ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoIIMelodyOfMetafalica'' has this. The conversation point about the costume focuses on that aspect. |
| 286 | * ''VideoGame/AzurLane'': One of the loading screens shows several of the girls in a public bath, with only their tresses covering their nipples. |
| 287 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' turns this trope on its head. The title character is a witch whose default wardrobe consists ''entirely'' of [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter her own magically manipulated hair]]. [[MsFanservice Not surprisingly]], she [[PrehensileHair uses her hair]] for [[OurDragonsAreDifferent other]] [[PowerFist things]] sometimes, which in turn makes this both an inversion and an aversion of the trope. And when she's doing some serious witchcraft, [[FullFrontalAssault not much is left on her person nor to the imagination]]. The trope appears in its more "traditional" form when Bayonetta uses a Wicked Weave in her outfit from the first game, where her outfit is down to a breastless leotard held together by her hair. The Queen costume in the first game allows players to play as her in that "Summoning" outfit, with some pieces from the Umbran Elegances. |
| 288 | * ''VideoGame/BerserkAndTheBandOfTheHawk'': Farnese is topless throughout the "Night of Miracles" level, but [[NippleAndDimed at least her nipples]] are always hidden by her bangs. For comparison, her toplessness was explicit in the original manga, while the broadcast version of ''Anime/{{Berserk|2016}}'' went with BarbieDollAnatomy instead. Mocked a bit on the ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'': |
| 289 | -->'''Jim Sterling:''' I'm impressed with her hair -- in fact, all of the women's hair in this game. Really good at sticking to breasts like flypaper. I've never seen human hair that can actually do that in real [life], but in video games, it seems to happen a lot. I'm always impressed by that, must get the name of their stylist. |
| 290 | * [[https://tcrf.net/File:Catherine-Cell-Image-3-Final.png One of the provocative pictures]] Catherine sends Vincent in ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' has her hair covering her boobs. |
| 291 | * Chaos Witch Quelaag, one of the bosses from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', is a naked woman/lava spider hybrid rocking the Godiva Hair. Her sister has it too, but it's less noticeable. |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': |
| 293 | ** Felicia manages to combine this concept with FurBikini. Her "outfit" is just her fur in thin strips. Her promotional artwork for ''Resurrection'' has a censored version where her proper hair covers her chest as well. |
| 294 | ** Rikuo's Midnight Bliss form is a nude mermaid covered by hair in this fashion. |
| 295 | * Anna Graham [[spoiler:after she's found dead and nailed to a tree]] in ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition''. |
| 296 | * The topless HotAsHell demoness Nevan from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' only has her hair covering her breasts, which doesn't move from there even when she's fighting. This is on top of wearing a skirt made out of bats. |
| 297 | * The Lady of the Forest in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' appears naked with Godiva hair, as well as strategically placed vines and branches; not quite SceneryCensor or HandOrObjectUnderwear as it's not a trick of the camera angle nor an overt action on her part, and she has nothing to hide anyway (she lacks nipples). |
| 298 | * ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'': The 8-bit arcade miniboss CORALIA is an always-naked mermaid whose green hair covers her chest. This is likely stylistic as part of the [[ShowWithinAShow Game Within a Game]] she's from, as nudity in the series[[note]][=NPCs=] in the third and fourth games and an EasterEgg with Natalie's 7th Heaven LimitBreak in this one[[/note]] is otherwise handled with CensorBox[=es=]. |
| 299 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]] is depicted as wearing nothing but a few pieces of jewelry, with her long hair just barely covering up any naughty bits. |
| 300 | * The Great Fairy in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' wears a sash around her waist but nothing but hair to cover her breasts. Said hair can actually be moved through hacking or in model viewers, but [[BarbieDollAnatomy her breasts lack nipples]]. |
| 301 | * ''VideoGame/LiveALive'': In the Prehistory chapter, [[TheRival Zaki]] wears a live lizard to cover his crotch- his backside is covered by his long hair. |
| 302 | * Yuzuruha from ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' appears nude in one of the bath scenes, with hair long enough to cover her breasts and her nethers. |
| 303 | * Eve in ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}''. Her hair still does this, even after her assets are covered up in the expansion. When the camera is at the right angle, this trope fails to achieve its goal. |
| 304 | * The Rusalka in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'' -- even teasing the players when a lock of her hair is needed as one of the steps to free her. Naturally, it apparently comes from the back of her head. She does make a crack about how she would look with short hair. |
| 305 | * In ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'', there's a pair of bath scenes that use Godiva Hair to cover up female characters -- at least, those that have enough hair. The ones that don't are covered up in other strategic ways. |
| 306 | * The Japanese and European versions of ''VideoGame/RoboAleste'' have this in the cutscene with Astaros bathing. |
| 307 | * A good number of female demons/Personas in the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series; while the hand-drawn artwork in their profiles shows them in various (and detailed) stages of nudity, the actual character models have seemingly glued their hair to their chest. |
| 308 | * Irui Gan Eden, who debuted in ''[[Videogame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Super Robot Wars Alpha 2]]'', has long, wavy, nearly ankle-length hair covering her nudity in this manner. |
| 309 | * ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': The Nymph and Lamia enemies are both nude, but their chests are covered by their hair. Lower nudity is not an issue with the Lamias, being SnakePeople, and the Nymphs just have BarbieDollAnatomy downstairs. The player can get a Lamia-based costume, but on female characters it comes with a set of wrappings. |
| 310 | * In the first ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'', after defeating the evil necromancer Lezard Valeth, Lenneth finds a number of homunculi—artificial bodies of half-elves in his laboratory which look suspiciously similar to her and proceeds to destroy most of them. They all have the same incredibly long silver hair as her, which conveniently obscures their nipples. Presumably, Lezard made them be anatomically correct since he's a sicko, but their genitals are never shown. It is one of the scenes rendered in FMV for the PSP remake. |
| 311 | * ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'': |
| 312 | ** The dryad Morenn in the American release uses Godiva Hair and a loincloth to satisfy the censors. (These, along with other censoring added to the American release, can be removed with the Director's Cut patch if one is so inclined.) |
| 313 | ** The Lady of the Lake has hair like this in all versions of the game. Her hair is long enough to wrap around and provide modesty even below the waist. |
| 314 | * Therazane of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' does this, but considering [[FanDisservice her skin made of cracked rock and a smile of razor-sharp, purple crystals]], it's easy to overlook. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 318 | * ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': One of Zoe's secret endings depicts her naked, with her [[HumanoidAbomination hair-tentacles]] covering her in this way. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 322 | * An early ''Webcomic/AppleGeeks'' page has a nudist club having a party in one character's room, leading to [[http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=35 this]]. |
| 323 | * Combined with CensorSteam and SpeechBubbleCensoring in [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Crossoverkill/5367110 a shower scene]] from ''Webcomic/{{Crossoverkill}}''. |
| 324 | * ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''. [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_885.php Happens in a strip]], and even more blatant two strips later, with the same character. |
| 325 | * When Erin from ''[[http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City Dragon City]]'' was temporarily changed into human from dragon, she had hair covering her nipples since female dragons don't wear clothes. |
| 326 | * Kili of ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' explodes out of her clothes when she turns into a werewolf. Fortunately, she's got very long hair now to cover her up when she [[http://dragondoctors.dhscomix.com/archives/comic/ch-9-page-47 turns back]]. |
| 327 | * [[https://drowtales.com/moonless-age/7056 These]] [[https://drowtales.com/moonless-age/7058 four]] [[https://drowtales.com/moonless-age/7060 pages]] [[https://drowtales.com/moonless-age/7061 of]] ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' feature it with Snadhya'rune and Mel, as does [[https://drowtales.com/moonless-age/5897 this page]] with Kalki. |
| 328 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Mermaid!Nanase is shown with [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-08-06 this]] during a dream. |
| 329 | * ''Webcomic/TheEmbodimentOfSins'': Ish spends a couple of pages after his ForcedTransformation into [[GenderBender a female form]] with his hair covering his breasts until he finds some human clothes among the goblins' loot that fit him. |
| 330 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', Kyri wears her hair Godiva-style during a [[http://endstone.net/comic/4-24-2/ flashback]]. |
| 331 | * ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'': The possibly demonic Amihan's hair doesn't cover her breasts, which [[NonHumansLackAttributes lack nipples]], but does cover her hips in panels where the [[SceneryCensor scenery]] or [[SpeechBubbleCensoring speech bubbles]] don't. |
| 332 | * ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Brook apparently already lost her top and bra at StripPoker when [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-852-laundry-hold-em/ Sydney walks on them]], as her hair is all that's covering her chest. |
| 333 | * Lauren from ''Webcomic/{{Jix}}'' had Godiva Hair when she changed back to human from Ambis (since Ambis don't wear clothes normally). |
| 334 | * ''Webcomic/LivingWithInsanity'' has a nudist. Originally she was covered with [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Living_With_Insanity/5094978 this trope]], but when Paul Salvi came on board, he [[http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index/?p=216 decided not to bother]]. |
| 335 | * ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'' invokes this during shower scenes, such as when Tandy steps out of the shower to [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan belt]] [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/that_look Melissa]] and immediately after Mel [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/kitten_has_claws returns the favor]]. |
| 336 | * Miho of ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' has it when she goes to the bathhouse with Piro while fleeing her rabid fans.. |
| 337 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 338 | ** Aphrodite, in the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0274.html Snarl's backstory]]. |
| 339 | ** Then Haley [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0752.html couldn't resist]] the magical hair regrowth, [[ReadyForLovemaking and]]... |
| 340 | * Claire, [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2891 the first time she spends the night with Marten]] in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. Preceded by LettingHerHairDown and followed by ToplessnessFromTheBack. |
| 341 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Several times in ''The Sharp End of the Stick'' this is used to [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20070322.html hide Elf's breasts]], after the Toughs captured by Shufgar were stripped of their clothing, and crash-landed in their escape. |
| 342 | * ''Webcomic/{{Skadi}}'': Whenever Skadi is depicted naked, she often has her hair obscuring her breasts. |
| 343 | * ''Webcomic/{{Too Much Information|2005}}'' has a [[GoodAngelBadAngel shoulder devil]], Cleopatra, who's [[http://tmi-comic.com/2007/02/26/coping a sexy demoness covered only by long tresses of flaming hair]]. |
| 344 | * ''Webcomic/TheWordWeary'': John imagines Elly naked but is so convinced he'll never actually see her nude that he imagines her hair covering her good bits. |
| 345 | * Most non-human creatures with breasts are shown this way in ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'', when they don't wear clothes, of course. |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 349 | * Francine in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence" where she and Stan wash up on a deserted island and (with no memory of who they are and the clothes ripped) begin to bond as the new Adam and Eve. |
| 350 | * A scene in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Runaway" where Katara was bathing made use of her hair covering her body to enable the show to keep its TV-Y7 rating. That and [[SceneryCensor staying mostly underwater]]. |
| 351 | * The ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' episode "Bible Humpers: A Much Needed Praycation" has this trope demonstrated by, fittingly enough, a Clone High student who happens to be a clone of Lady Godiva herself, who has her long hair cover up her naked body when she's seen without clothes. |
| 352 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: A.R.C.T.I.C.", after the KND are hit by a "[[TheNudifier Nude Torpedo]]", Numbuh Three manages to cover herself ''completely'' with her long hair, like a cape. |
| 353 | * Mora from ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' is a mermaid who rescues Bean from drowning, [[spoiler:and falls in love with her]]. In an aversion of the typical SeashellBra, Mora is topless with her long cascade of hair covering up her breasts. |
| 354 | ** As shown in the series finale, [[spoiler:after Bean runs away with Mora to an island, she only wears a palm leaf skirt and uses her hair to cover her breasts]]. |
| 355 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DrZitbagsTransylvaniaPetShop'' episode "Pirate Parrots" has a scene where Zitbag encounters a pair of topless sirens who have their breasts covered up by their hair. |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 357 | ** Used (and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]), providing us with this quote: |
| 358 | --->'''Peter:''' Oh my God! She's got hair growing out of her boobs and up to her head! |
| 359 | ** The episode "Lois Comes Out of Her Shell" has a scene where Lois seduces Peter wearing only her panties and with the hair (she adopted a different hairstyle) to cover her breasts. |
| 360 | * The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Camp Keep a Good Mac Down" had Madame Foster end up going naked after communing with nature, her body covered up by her hair being worn down. |
| 361 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had Hank and Peggy visiting a nude campsite where they met two female nudists. One of which had long, straight brown hair that conveniently covered her breasts. |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'' invokes this when the title characters visit Lady Godiva herself. Playing it extremely modestly, her hair doesn't hang over her naughty bits as much as it wraps around them like she was wearing a bikini made of hair. |
| 363 | * Apple Bloom's sculpture from "The Cutie Pox" episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is basically [[http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/f/f4/Apple_Bloom%27s_statue_S2E6.png a pony version]] of "Birth of Venus" (see above) and uses both Godiva mane AND Godiva tail. |
| 364 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' does this in a scene in which a woman is streaking. |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 366 | ** When Marge is Eve in a dream sequence. And whenever she's showering. |
| 367 | ** There was also the episode "The Last Temptation of Homer" where Homer fantasized of Mindy as Venus in the aforementioned painting ''The Birth of Venus''. |
| 368 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpyGroove'' gives us Windy La Tete, who plays nude Marco Polo in the ocean of Malibu, with very long hair to cover her enormous chest. |
| 369 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In the season 3 finale, Star goes to the Realm of Magic to find her mother, Queen Moon. She discovers Moon has lost her memories to the Realm and is running around carefree... and completely naked, with her long hair the only thing preserving her modesty. |
| 370 | * The Hunter has this in some sequences in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', although she has BarbieDollAnatomy underneath (although originally, she was intended to have detail and her hair was to be shorter). |
| 371 | * Subverted with Lady Godiva herself on ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad''. Rather than use her long hair to cover up her breasts, two black censor bars are used instead. |
| 372 | * ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': Topless women from the pre-Columbian civilizations have their breasts' nipples covered by their heads' long hair. When that fails, BarbieDollAnatomy is employed instead. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 376 | * Lucy Pinder, former PageThreeStunna and active nude model, started the "Hairkini" trend in England, with women covering up their nips with long, long hair. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | !!!Male variant |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 382 | * ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': In the anime, when emperor Dornkirk [[FanDisservice gets out of his machine naked]], the only thing leaving him some modesty is his massive beard. Averted in the manga when he gets an energist body, where his beard barely reaches his chest. However, we are treated to heavily shaded BarbieDollAnatomy. |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 386 | * Sometimes [[Creator/RobertCrumb Mr. Natural]] walks around naked, except his beard covers up the rude bits -- [[FanDisservice but not the back]]. |
| 387 | * Also seen in one album of the [[FrancoBelgianComics French comic book]] ''Marine'', with an old naked hermit living under the sea. |
| 388 | [[/folder]] |
| 389 | |
| 390 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 391 | * The hermit who's taken a vow of silence in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. Like Mr. Natural mentioned above, it only covers his front. (The hermit was played by the film's director Terry Jones who apparently directed the rest of the cast totally forgetting he was stark naked) |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:Poetry]] |
| 395 | * Creator/ShelSilverstein once wrote a poem about a long-bearded nudist who takes advantage of this trope. The illustration is very much ''not'' fanservice. |
| 396 | -->''My beard grows to my toes.\ |
| 397 | I never wears no clothes.\ |
| 398 | I wrap my hair\ |
| 399 | Around my bare\ |
| 400 | And down the road I goes.'' |
| 401 | [[/folder]] |
| 402 | |
| 403 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 404 | * In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', the wild dwarves do not wear clothing, instead allowing their long beards (and ''copious'' body hair) to cover them. The one in the illustration appears to be wearing furry pants. He's not. |
| 405 | [[/folder]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 408 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': |
| 409 | ** The Ice King has once an OutOfClothesExperience. Thankfully, his beard is inexplicably longer during that scene. |
| 410 | ** The Naked Wizard in "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain" and "Wizard Battle" also has his torso covered by his beard. |
| 411 | --->"I'M NAKED! EEHEEHEEHEEHEE!" |
| 412 | * ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'': Dudley once lost his uniform, and so he couldn't be a mountie any longer. He lived in the woods until he grew a beard long enough to cover himself. ("Lucky for him", says the {{Narrator}}.) Also lucky for him, when Nell finds him and brings him his uniform, she also brings him a razor. |
| 413 | * The Stone Age version of Maestro in ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'' appears to have this. Later incarnations definitely have sleeves and pants legs sticking out of the beard. |
| 414 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Tak and the Power of Juju|2007}}'' episode "This Bites" has the Log Hermit left naked after a zombified Jibolba eats the tree stump he wears, his genitals covered up by his beard. |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
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