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->''"Look at these bags under my eyes! Even my ''bags'' have bags!"''
-->-- '''Squidward''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E1FearOfAKrabbyPattyShellOfAMan Fear of a Krabby Patty]]"

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.

This is most prominently and obviously used in animation and comics; however, a bit of make-up is sometimes used on actors to show this trope.

Compare OpenTheIris, which is a technique to show that a character's pupils (and irises--[[RuleOfFunny hey, cartoons]]) have dilated in order to easily convey an emotional reaction. Often combined with DrearyHalfLiddedEyes. See CreepyShadowedUndereyes too, where this trope might be the explanation for it.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* 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 ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', Eren has some in episode 15 after being forced to stay up all night listening to Hange explain to him everything she knew regarding Titans. She did warn him it would take a while before starting, however.
* Nero/Secre Swallowtail from ''Manga/BlackClover'' has these after regaining her human form, likely due to spending five centuries as a bird and her, understandably, somber demeanor. Though they tend to go away or at least be more akin to a natural eyeliner in more emotional moments.
* ''Manga/BlendS'': Kaho gets these as a result of being forced to study all night, but having Eye Bags means she can't show her face to the customers. Fortunetely, Mafyuyu fixes it with some makeup.
* Harumi Kiyama from ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' has these, but we have a flashback that shows her both before she got them and the very moment she developed them. [[spoiler:The Academy City leaders are ''bastards''.]]
* These are the most recognizable feature of Reine Murasame in ''Literature/DateALive''. She says she has had insomnia for ''30 years''.
* ''Franchise/DeathNote'':
** As a consequence of being an [[TheInsomniac insomniac]] and [[invoked]] [[FridgeBrilliance the presumably exhaustive nature of his work]], L has prominent eye bags.
** Near also develops [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/near_as_the_third_l.png one of these eye bags]] once he becomes L's successor, presumably for the same reasons.
* Another character who has these constantly is Miranda in ''Manga/DGrayMan'', who suffers from insomnia due to anxiety and low self-esteem. In later chapters, though, she's less tired-looking and doesn't have eye bags but she still has noticeably thicker eye lines than most other characters in the series.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Mustang, Hawkeye, and Hughes all have these during the flashbacks to the Ishvalan War of Extermination, to highlight how psychologically exhausted they all are.
* In ''Anime/GurrenLagann'', Rossiu starts to stress out over the circumstances of [[spoiler:the falling moon decimating the entire planet]] and his guilt over [[spoiler:betraying Simon out of desperation]], leaving him very emotionally exhausted.
* Shirogane from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' suffers from chronic sleep deprivation due to his insane workload, giving him a constant glare that most other students find intimidating. Kaguya ended up developing a {{Fetish}} for this sort of look due to having fallen in love with him.
* Shown on the three Wannabe Toudai Students in ''Manga/LoveHina'' after they pull all-nighters. Naru has the eyebags, Keitaro tops it by having them and being wobbly all over... and Mutsumi subverts it, as she looks fresh and relaxed, despite not getting a wink of sleep.
* In episode 5 of ''Literature/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.]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Hayate Gekko has these. This feature and his unexplained chronic coughing fits would suggest some sort of illness, but nothing has been officially disclosed.
** The thick black lines around Gaara's eyes are representative of these. He's possessed by a type of demon that torments people in their sleep, so he's naturally an extreme insomniac. This has more than a little to do with his very unbalanced mental state.
** In ''Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie'', a now-adult Naruto has noticeable bags under his eyes due to the amount of work and stress he has [[spoiler:as the Seventh Hokage]].
** In chapter 700, the DistantFinale, of the manga Temari had these. It could be due to her age (she's slightly older than the Konoha 12), having to deal with her lazy son and his father all the time, or a combination of the two. In the anime, however, they ended up redesigning Temari so that she looks younger and doesn't have bags under her eyes.
* The main character of ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' has a notable case of these. Strangely enough, she's the kind who would stay up all night playing games, but they seem partially genetic: the rest of her family also have noticeably baggy eyes.
* A few times in ''Literature/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.]]]]
* Shiiko from ''Manga/SchoolLive'' is a scientist who spends most of her time indoors "researching" zombies. She does all-nighters and as a result, has MessyHair and bags under her eyes.
* ''Literature/{{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.
* Kuro from ''Manga/{{Servamp}}'' always has them, probably to show that he's a LazyBum who's always sleepy.
* 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 ''Manga/SoulEater'', Dr. Franken Stein acquires these after Asura is released. This is meant to show how the madness is wearing on him for a while before he snaps.
* In episode 120 of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Himespetchi has some noticeable bags under her eyes after she makes herself tired from fondly watching Mametchi sleeping ''all night''.
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Kaneki is stressed from the weight on his shoulders of being forced underground for safety with the other ghouls due to the CCG making it their mission on the surface to exterminate every last ghoul. He is the leader of the pack and the huge responsibility is getting to him as showcased by bags under his bloodshot eyes as commented on by Touka.
* ''Manga/WitchHatAtelier'': Olrugio has visible eye bags (which contributes to his FaceOfAThug) since he's frequently pulling all-nighters to meet deadlines for crafting magical items while keeping an eye on Qifrey's atelier. In the spin-off manga, he seems to be constantly on the verge of collapsing.
* In ''Anime/YuYuHakusho'' Hiei gets these after taking everything he had to defeat Bui. Once he hibernates for 6 hours they go away. Also after fighting with Sensui, they appear again and he passes out from exhaustion again.
* In ''Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead'', Akira has these at the start of the story because of how thoroughly overworked and miserable he is at his SoulCrushingDeskJob, often being forced to pull multiple all-nighters in a row and never being paid appropriately for all his effort. The eye bags vanish the minute he realizes that he never has to go to work again thanks to the ZombieApocalypse, emphasizing just how happy and refreshed he feels.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': In the Season 3 episode "''[=BoBoiBot=] Arrives''", [=BoBoiBoy=] arrives at school with eyebags as a result of resisting the urge to transform into his [[PlayingWithFire fire elemental]] at night again. Gopal remarks that he looks like a panda.
* ''Animation/BoonieCubs'': In Season 2 episode 23, Violet and Luna Lu have eye bags by the time they get to school, as they barely got any sleep the previous night.
* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'', Wei Wuxian gains exhausted eye bags during his time at the [[CorpseLand Burial Mounds]].
* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Amato develops dark circles under his eyes from being kept awake by noisy singing for several nights. On the night that he fights Karok, the robot causing the racket, several others at school also appear with eyebags the following morning due to all the commotion disturbing their sleep.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Flying Island: The Sky Adventure'' episode 11, Paddi develops them when he keeps finding Weslie sleeping after he promised to help him with his labor.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Sleepless}}'', Sir Cyrenic and all the other Knights of the Sleepless Order are easily identifiable because of the permanent dark circles under their eyes -- a symptom of the magic that [[TheSleepless prevents them from falling asleep]]. [[spoiler: When Cyrenic's vows are broken after three years of unsleeping service, he falls unconscious for a year (paying off his "sleep debt") and awakens without the dark circles.]]
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/CloseButNoCoffee'', Mitsumi has faint bags because she doesn't sleep well when traveling with Hareta.
* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': Multiple:
** Asuka has eye bags after [[spoiler:waking up from a coma]] because she isn't sleeping well.
** [[https://tapas.io/episode/2384884 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).
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': After the SleepDeprivation, to be awake for over 24 hours, to prepare for a difficult battle in a week, Ami's companions are described thus: "dark circles under her companions' eyes".
* In ''Fanfic/FearTheSuperhero'', Shirou and Karasuba both suffer from this after their first night together. Rather than sleeping, they exchanged hours of near-unblinking eye contact, Shirou waiting for her to make a threatening move. At some point, they both passed out from exhaustion.
* ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'':
** This visual trick is often used to hint that Shinji and Asuka aren't sleeping well.
** Asuka visits Shinji after leaving Kyoto in a hurry. The narration uses visual clues such as eye bags and rumpled clothes to hint that she is physically and mentally exhausted and about to collapse.
** Shinji has eye bags the days after his daughter's birth. He isn't sleeping well because he is worried about Asuka's health and his parental skills.
* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': When Arlo is seen in his bad state at the start of the story, his eyes are covered in some combination of dark bags and {{Guyliner}}, implying that along with not bathing or cleaning his room, he also hasn't been sleeping well.
* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', Goh obtains them after not sleeping for three days in his attempts to figure out his friend, Chloe, just vanished into thin air.
* ''Fanfic/InSottoVoce'':
** Zelda gets bags under her eyes after spending a night reading.
** A few days of stress and overwork cause Ruto to have eye bags.
* ''Fanfic/AMothersTouch'': Reiji is shown having these, either from the stress on trying to prepare for his father's invasion or because of his shady dealings on wanting Yuya's Pendulum monsters exposed to the world.
* Satsuki Kiryuin in ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection'' sports of pair of these on account of her being TheInsomniac, with flashbacks showing that she would often have these due to rarely sleeping.
* In ''Fanfic/RabbitOfTheMoon'', Bell develops these after his second trip to Yharnam, with Eina noting that they normally appear on Adventurers four times Bell's age.
* In ''Fanfic/SwarmingWithHatred'', due to his illness making him unable to sleep, [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Battamonda]]'s eyes quickly grow baggy. They disappear once he heals up enough to rest properly.
* ''Fanfic/ATriangleintheStars'': Bill develops this in the school arc, specifically Chapter Twenty-Six, but it's more from anxiety and even worried fright. It doesn't go away, and at times gets ''worse''.
* In ''Fanfic/TowardsTheSun'', Zuko has these throughout his reign as Fire Lord due to his constant overworking and lack of sleep.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Almost every character in ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy'' has these, in keeping up with its faux-retro design. One exception would be Alia.
* Violet in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' has these, likely to complete the 'emo' look. They partially recede in the sequel.
* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'':
** Evelyn Deavor has prominent dark under-eye circles, most likely from working long nights.
** Bob develops them after losing sleep from holding down the Parr family fort, dealing with his kids' problems.
* The character, Goob, has these all the time in ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' due to Lewis's inventing keeping him up all night and using him as a guinea pig for said inventions.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', reflecting his lethargy, Devon has got noticeable bags under his eyes.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Mentioned in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (1939).
-->'''Cowardly Lion:''' Look at the circles under my eyes, I haven't slept in weeks!
* In ''Film/TheyThem2020'', Ash has eye bags after staying up all night working on a poem.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The image appears a few times in the ''Literature/AuntDimity'' series when a character is tired due to stress. To cite only one example, new mother of twins Lori is described with "her brown eyes smudged with bruises of fatigue".
* ''Literature/TheBoyFromAleppoWhoPaintedTheWar'': Adam's father has had eye bags ever since his mother died three years ago. The bags become more pronounced after the war begins.
* Ellie from ''Literature/{{Clade}}'' has these after a power outage wakes up her young daughter at 5 AM and she won't go back to sleep.
* Verity Price from ''[[Literature/InCryptid Discount Armageddon]]'' has to apply copious amounts of foundation to cover her exhausted eye bags from a too-nocturnal existence.
* 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.
* In Creator/DrSeuss's ''Horton Hatches the Egg'', Mazie complains of having bags under her eyes. In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' [[WesternAnimation/HortonHatchesTheEgg 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.
* In ''Literature/LilyAndDunkin'', Dunkin's mom has dark circles under her eyes when she [[spoiler:visits him in the hospital after his psychotic break]].
* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys”, Roys gets bags under his eyes when he’s sleep-deprived.
* In ''Literature/TheSomedayBirds'', Gram has purple wedges under her eyes on the day of [[spoiler:Dad's surgery]].
* Rory from ''Literature/WickedGood'' has these when he stays up all night during a suicidal crisis.
* ''Literature/XandriCorelel'': Marco Antilles, a diplomat in ''Failure to Communicate'', has "smudges like bruises" under his eyes the morning after he foils an assassination attempt.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In Creator/TheBBC's ''BasedOnATrueStory'' drama ''We'll Take Manhattan'' model Jean Shrimpton gets these during her eponymous UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity photoshoot and has to wear sunglasses for part of it. This is either because she's tired and jetlagged, or because she spends every night bonking the photographer, David Bailey.
* ''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 with his [[FangsAreEvil vampire fangs]] and [[SuperSpeed lightning-quick]] punch.
* ''Series/LazyTown'': Stingy appears to have these despite having no known sleeping problems.
* In ''Series/TheUntamed'', though it's hard to notice, Wei Wuxian gains some exhausted eye bags when he's in the [[CorpseLand Burial Mounds]].
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Workaholic/Insomniac Wrestling/CMPunk always has these. UsefulNotes/StraightEdge means no Nightquil it seems.
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
** As a result of school, jobs, and caretaking leaving him [[TripleShifter chronically overworked]], Ciro always sports a pair of bags under his eyes.
** To complement her overall [[SeriouslyScruffy haggard look]] from being homeless, Harriet has prominent bags. This earned her the demeaning nickname of 'Bag Lady' from Rose.
** Jacob, due to being a stringent ScheduleFanatic with an increasingly poor grasp on his mental health, has heavy bags.
** Hyeon and his cousin Jae both have bags, though for different reasons: Jae because, like Ciro above, he's heavily overworked, whilst Hyeon is a {{delinquent}} and rock-star wannabe who stays out late and doesn't prioritize a good night's sleep.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/NoisesOff'': Timothy Allgood, the stage manager, is verbally abused and horrendously overworked to the point of complete exhaustion by Lloyd Dallas, the in-over-his-head director of the play "Nothing On," which is nowhere close to being ready to present to an audience despite the premiere showing being just hours away. Keep in mind Allgood hasn't slept in nearly two days. For instance, when several props are not working properly (a window pane in a door keeps falling out; several doors are locked, etc.), Dallas -- ignoring the pleas of the cast -- barks at Allgood to make the repairs or else. He also tells Allgood he had better be ready at a moment's notice in case the unreliable actor Selsdon fails to show up or the neurotic Freddy passes out from whatever illness.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 Quentin Smith]] has prominent ones in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight''. Justified, as he is the obsession of [[DreamWalker Freddy Krueger]].
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'':
** 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.]]
** Dimitri has these in his portrait after the time skip, indicating his SanitySlippage. [[spoiler:After the battle at Gronder Field, they go away as he begins to recover.]]
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Patchouli Knowledge occasionally sports these.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': Trip the [[FriendInTheBlackMarket pawnbroker]] has prominent dark circles under his eyes, likely caused by his nocturnal work schedule and [[SafetyInIndifference whatever he suspects]] of the supernatural troubles afflicting Los Angeles.
* In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', Oka Ruto constantly has these, due to constantly staying up late to research the supernatural.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''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.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': Arthur is depicted with big bags under his eyes in "Freaking Out" and the following videos, indicating he's spent more time searching for Lewis than he has sleeping.
* Blake Belladonna from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' sports these because she's unable to sleep or eat from stressing over the White Fang and Torchwick's plans.
Every character in "Generic Adult Show" has darkened eyelids and darkened circles around their eyes.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
%%* Katie's AuthorAvatar in ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' has these.
* ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'': Zeno gains these when he decides the best way to deal with his possession is to just stay awake and not give his mental hitchhiker a chance to mess with him in his sleep.
* In ''Webcomic/DestroyerOfLight'' Persephone sports those all the time, as does Hades. It is part of their gothic persona, implying that they're mainly up at night if they can choose.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Tedd [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=26 has these]] after a bad night of sleep due to bad dreams.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Gil abuses Skifandrian mental exercises [[TheSleepless designed to help people stay awake for a few days at a time]] in order to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130911#.Vv_v7eIrLIU stay awake]] for [[TheInsomniac two and a half years]]. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131108#.Vv_zuOIrLIU It shows.]]
* ''Webcomic/TheGreenhouse'': Mica, caused by the demon 'Red' feeding on her soul. Once she gets a charm to protect her [[spoiler:and then a second one because she breaks the first]], she stops feeling [[SleepDeprivation almost too tired to function]], but the bags never go away, a constant reminder that however stable things may seem, her bond with Red is not healthy for her. [[spoiler:Once her bond with Red is severed, the eye bags finally disappear]].
* ''Webcomic/AHeartfeltAndante'': To emphasize that she is currently in despair, Yeonjo is drawn with prominent bags under her eyes in her debut chapter.
* ''Webcomic/Life2012'': Five days into [[spoiler:her twenty-day mission to complete a portfolio for the graphic design major at college]], [[http://www.cha0sden.com/Life.php?comic=197 Felicia develops an impressive pair of these.]]
* ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': After a wild Halloween party, hung-over Commander Badass and Jonesy are seen sporting these.
* Vaarsuvius of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' at one point has a problem with [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0623.html nightmares]]...and decides that the best solution is simply to not trance,[[note]]which is what elves do instead of sleeping[[/note]] since ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' takes place in an RPGMechanicsVerse and there are no mechanical penalties for not sleeping or trancing. There are visible negative effects, though, including visible bags around the eyes.
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': When he's having an existential crisis, Pintsize (being a robot) draws bags under his eyes with a dry-erase marker. Faye exhibits them after being [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3590 startled awake by Sam in her guise as Skullmaster]].
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': After dealing with a night's worth of strong monsters in Chapter 15, Bud and Harley are both looking the worse for wear. Bud is clearly exhausted, and has heavy bags under her eyes; still, she insists to her teammate that she's fine.
-->'''Bud:''' [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-15-page-28 I don't know what you're talking about. I could do this all night.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Taken to an extreme in ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' when the characters stay awake for a [[EleventyZillion "bah-zillion" years]] .
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''
** On ''WesternAnimation/ArthursPerfectChristmas'', Buster has a bad case of this due to being repeatedly awoken really early in the morning by his mother because she thinks it's Christmas when it actually isn't.
** In "Is There a Doctor in the House?", Mrs. and Mr. Read both have these after catching a cold. D.W. is depicted 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.
** In the second to last episode, Azula herself starts sporting these when she starts banishing people left and right. She's clearly losing sleep.
* Bill Green from ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has small bags under his eyes, which are fitting for his age and probably has to do with the stress of Cricket and Tilly's antics.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', Princess Carolyn always has these, as early as her late teens, due to her workaholic nature.
** [=BoJack=] himself has these, from being middle-aged and likely from being a heavy alcoholic and drug abuser.
** [=BoJack=]'s parents, Beatrice and Butterscotch, had these after their ShotGunWedding and [[ResentfulGuardian having [=BoJack=],]] representing their jaded and bitter attitudes towards each other, their life, and their son.
*** Notably, Beatrice’s eyes were larger and more expressive as a young adult. In the years after having [=BoJack=] her eyes are smaller and her eye bags steadily get bigger as she ages, representing her growing more jaded and bitter and being shut off from the world.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'', both Rosie and Caillou get this in "Caillou's Puppet Show" when they're sick with the flu.
* In "Belly Ball" from ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot'', Share Bear wants to get a ribbon for winning at belly ball like Cheer and Tenderheart because she thinks it'll make everyone like her. She practices all night, but just ends up with these and so tired that she can barely play at all, let alone win a ribbon.
* Naturally, Creator/TexAvery exaggerates in the cartoon "Doggone Tired" with the characters having bag upon bag piled under their eyes, running down all the way to their cheeks.
* On ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'', Elinor's father has these in "Bird Song" after being woken up early by a bird loudly singing outside the window.
* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'':
** Timmy makes a wish where no one had to sleep, and everyone in Dimmsdale had bags under their eyes from fatigue, and various other GrossUpCloseUp ailments coming from not sleeping.
** In "Birthday Battle", Chloe gets these when she stays up all night setting up her birthday party.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' parodied celebrities who looked like this by having Ashley Judd and Vince Vaughn in a fake TV show entitled ''People Who Always Look Really Tired'', drawing attention to the bags under the celebrities' eyes.
* Dipper Pines from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' always has slightly-baggy eyes; he likes to stay up late reading. In "Carpet Diem", when the two [[FreakyFridayFlip swap bodies]] [[EyesAreMental Dipper's eye bags follow him into Mabel's body]]. In the episode "Sock Opera", this is taken one step further when Dipper stays up late at night for days on end trying to figure out the password to a laptop.
-->'''Mabel:''' You look like a vampire, and not [[VampiresAreSexGods the hot kind]]!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "Let's Play Justice Masters", Mr. Cat, who is tired and stressed out, goes around with these for the whole episode.
* Lincoln Loud from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' has bags and discolored eyelids, probably from constantly dealing with the antics of his ten sisters.
** Similarly, his friend Ronnie Anne Santiago acquires eyebags by Season 3, after she has moved in with her massive extended family.
** Her brother Bobby sports eye bags and darker eyelids just like Lincoln.
* ''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/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Applejack gets those when she is badly overworked with apple harvest (and too stubborn to accept help)
** Scootaloo briefly gets these in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville "Sleepless In Ponyville"]] due to sleep deprivation.
** Princess Cadence gets them when she has to constantly stay up to cast a spell that keeps evil at bay.
** Twilight has these in "Princess Spike" due to being awake for three consecutive days preparing for the Grand Equestrian Pony Summit. It comes through in her voice as well.
** And the entire Mane Six get them when they are kept up by nightmares in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Hunter has a perpetual case of these, and seems to be overworking himself quite a bit.
* ''WesternAnimation/PrepAndLanding'': Magee has these. They become more noticeable in stressful situations.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Ren gets some truly epic ones in the episode "Space Madness."
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Rocko gets them after working overtime at work, to the point where they hit the floor.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': Stu gets these after Dil's crying is keeping him awake.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson gets these, along with pink bloodshot eyes, whenever he gets a hangover from a hard night of drinking.
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': One episode has Sonic himself sporting these. He even sleep-slides through a laser fence as a result of his fatigue. [[note]]Tails shuts down the laser fence before he arrives, though.[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", Mr. Krabs forces Spongebob and Squidward to work at the Krusty Krab non-stop. At one point Squidward exclaims, "Look at these bags under my eyes! ''Even my bags have bags''!" We are then treated to a GrossUpCloseUp of Squidward's eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stanley}}'': In "Caterpillar Countdown", Elsie gets these when [[SanitySlippage losing her mind]] due to being tired of waiting for the butterfly to come out of the chrysalis.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'':
** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E03TemporalEdict Temporal Edict]]": Everyone on the ''Cerritos'' except for Boimler develops pronounced eye bags these when they're forced to work nonstop. Captain Freeman also develops eye bags even if she's not completely non-functional.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E05CupidsErrantArrow Cupid's Errant Arrow]]": Mariner develops baggy eyes after she finishes her StringTheory about the possible true identities of Boimler's girlfriend. Her fatigue is still visually evident in the mess hall when she cuts a sample of Brinson's hair, and also when she's in the shuttlebay ranting about Barb probably being a reptoid.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A few episodes have Steven getting exhausted eyes, one occasion being helping Kiki with her pizza-related dreams repeatedly.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Lex Luthor develops these in "Ghost in the Machine" after Brainiac kidnaps him and forces him to repair him for weeks, Lex is horrified when he discovers he has them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': News reporter Joan Grody always has them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Sometimes, the campers don't get enough sleep.
** "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheBigSleep The Big Sleep]]": All the contestants develop bags under their eyes as a result of the challenge being who can go the longest without sleep.
** "[[Recap/TotalDramaTruthOrLaserShark Truth or Laser Shark]]": Dakota has 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.
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