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* Vincent Valentine has a habit of doing this in ''FinalFantasyVII: AdventChildren''.
* [[{{Tangled}} Mother Gothel]] is a master of this trope. She normally manages to use it to vanish, which is one of the hints she's a witch.

* {{Angel}} does this in the Angel Investigations commercial Cordelia describes in a first season episode.

!!Examples:

* A staple of {{Batman}}, whose CapeSwish is actually ''weaponized''. The cape contains weights, the better to smack {{Mooks}} upside the head with.

* DoctorStrange's Cloak of Levitation, helpfully, grants flight powers and has some (very vaguely defined) sentience. It can billow around on its own, and often does.

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* Piccolo of ''DragonballZ'' is quite good at this, though notably does it less often after his HeelFaceTurn.
* The Super TengenToppaGurrenLagann does this, as do all the characters who sport capes, especially Simon and Kamina.
* Zero from ''CodeGeass'' adores this trope. Every one of his incredibly dramatic public addresses is punctuated by a well-timed CapeSwish.
* [[MYsteriousProtector Tuxedo Mask]] of ''SailorMoon'' is fond of this. Kunzite was also known to do it.

* Prince Proteus from Dreamworks' ''SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'' makes a dignified attempt at one , but the wind blows it back at him and it just looks silly.

** Because it's at the beginning of the Music of the Night scene, one could have an infinite loop of cape swishing.

* Similarly, the cloak worn by the title character in ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' is designed to drape over and move with his arms, ensuring plenty of appropriately [[{{Melodrama}} melodramatic]] cape swishing.

* Alan Statham from {{GreenWing}} attempts to do this with his lab coat, and spends a great deal of time walking back and forth and turning sharply in order to achieve this. It doesn't manage to make him any cooler.

* [[FinalFantasyIV Golbez]] does this with pretty much ever appearance he makes in the DS remake and in Dissidia his block is basically a dramatic cape swish.
* [[{{Kirby}} Meta Knight]] does this a lot with his cape. [[LimitBreak Especially]] in [[SuperSmashBros Brawl]].
* Lord Malak pulls this off in {{KnightsOfTheOldRepublic}} when [[spoiler: torturing Bastila]].

* Disney's ''[[DarkwingDuck Darkwing Duck]]'' is another chronic cape-swisher (probably in reference to ''[[TheShadow The Shadow.]]''
* Witness also Jenner's swish in the rats' council hall in SecretOfNimh

* Be honest. If you've ever worn a cape, you have done this. No exceptions.

* [[Series/DoctorWho "I am the Master, and you will watch me strut."]] (''Swish'') (This mostly applies to the Anthony Ainley Master.)

* Bumbling magician Schmendrick in ''TheLastUnicorn'' wants DramaticWind but has to settle for this instead.

* In ''{{Wicked}}'', the musical, the choreography of "No Good Deed" ends with Elphaba swishing her cape with dramatic lighting to accompany the powerful, bitter music. It's ''badass.''

* Bruce Campbell in ''JackOfAllTrades''. Pretty much every scene where he's in his Daring Dragoon persona.

* [[DoctorWho "I am the Master, and you will watch me strut."]] (''Swish'') (This mostly applies to the Anthony Ainley Master.)

* Disney's ''[[DarkwingDuck Darkwing Duck]]'' is another chronic cape-swisher (probably in reference to ''[[TheShadow The Shadow.]]''

* [[{{Kirby}} Meta Knight]] does this alot with his cape. [[LimitBreak Especially]] in [[SuperSmashBros Brawl]].

* [[ThePowerpuffGirls Mojo Jojo]]. It's one of the things he does best.

* Vincent Valentien has a habit of doing this in ''FinalFantasyVII: AdventChildren''.

* Prince Proteus from Dreamworks' ''SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'' makes a dignified attempt at one [[spoiler: before kneeling at the executioner's block]], but the wind blows it back at him and it just looks silly.

* [[{{Kirby}} Meta Knight]] does this alot with his cape. Most of the time he teleports.

** Oh, now that I think of it, the Wicked Queen in ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' manages [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QUf91j3XqI a particularly impressive one]] when rushing down from the Mirror Room to her secret spell-chamber.