A
cool-looking way of carrying your coat. It's not only used to indicate that a character is cool, but also a certain amount of casualness and self-confidence.
Also related to
Dramatic Wind and
Badass Cape. Compare
Coat Cape.
Examples:
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Advertisements
- Practically in every political ad, particularly when the candidate is looking directly into the camera.
Anime and Manga
Film - Live Action
- The movie Charly (an adaptation of Flowers for Algernon) begins with Charly trying and failing to flip his coat over his shoulder in a cool way.
- In Twins (the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Danny Devito film), Danny gets them matching sets of cool white suits. They simultaneously flip their jackets, with Arnold's jacket floating over Danny.
Live Action TV
Music
Video Games
- Persona 3: Akihiko, as pictured.
- Detective Dojima of Persona 4 never wears that coat of his.
- Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations: Jacques Portsman literally rotates from this to wearing the coat.
- The Commissar from the original Dawn of War keeps his coat draped over his shoulders at all time. Particularly jarring in that he was introduced in an expansion called "Winter Assault," where it makes sense for him to actually wear the coat.
- King of Fighters: King will occasionally remove her jacket and drape it over her shoulder as one of her victory poses.
Webcomics
Western Animation
Real Life
