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Symmetry is supposed to be a natural attractive feature, and any deviation seen as ugly. Apparently, no-one told these guys, or their fans. They take [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]] to a whole new level. Why constrain yourself to pant legs of one length, or stockings that match, when you can wear one short and one long? It must be kept in mind, of course, that fashion is a fickle thing, and largely a matter of perspective. For every outfit listed here, some will fight to the death to say it looks cool, while others think it looks, in the words of [[The Mean Brit|Simon Cowell]], atrocious. Keep squabbling about whether it's a "hot" or a "not" to yourselves, fashionistas.
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One would expect [[Electronic Eyes|cybernetic eyes]] to come in pairs, but as often as not a character will only have [[Eyepatch of Power|one cyber-eye]] (usually [[Power Glows|glowing]]), while the other one is still organic.
For extra bonus points, why not have [[Artificial Limbs|mismatched body parts]]? Nothing [[Red Right Hand|says Evil]] like a [[Hook Hand
Not to be confused with [[One
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime
* Both of the top-level angels from ''[[
* Several of Sakura's outfits in ''[[
* Raphael in ''[[Tenshi
* Kei's Knight of Light outfit in the anime version of ''[[
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (
** The belt-covered, [[Facial Markings|body-marked]] Reinforce. As the cute, [[Evil Costume Switch|purified]] Reinforce Zwei, the high and low stockings even switch places.
** That, and everyone's hair. Everyone's.
* ''[[
** A lot of shinigami accessorise their uniforms according to this trope. The king of this trope is Yumichika (both before and after the time-skip), but also included are (before the time-skip) Byakuya, Chojiro, Isane, Renji (in bankai), Nanao. After the time skip: Rukia, Ikkaku, Shinji, Uryuu.
** Several arrancar display this as well, but mostly in mask-fragments. Justified with Ulquiorra, who has something you could call bangs above his left eye, because of that stupid half-helmet he wears.
** Uryuu's [[One
* Several of the Cloths in ''[[
* Many characters from ''[[
* ''[[
** Karin has hair that is long and straight on her left side, but short and unkempt on the other.
** Killer Bee has a mark like an ox horn on his left cheek, mirroring {{spoiler|the Eight-Tailed Ox that he is host to, which is missing the end of its left horn}}.
** Temari wears two stockings: before the [[Time Skip]] the right one goes up from her sandals and ends just below her knee, and the left one goes from above her knee into her skirt. After the [[Time Skip]], however, she starts wearing matching ones.
** Sai has one sleeve on his crop top that's longer than the other.
** The title character has that [[Useless Accessory|functionless]] spiral tie thing his pre-[[Time Skip]] outfit has on the left shoulder.
** Guren (anime only) of the Three-Tailed Beast arc wore a green [[Badass Longcoat]] with a long left sleeve and a short right sleeve. Probably due to the fact that she was (from what the troper can gather) predominately right-handed and the Crystal Style Jutsu she used would have torn up the clothing she wore when she activated Crystal-Arm-Blade-Mode.
* The poster for ''The Extravaganza of [[
* Mira, the [[Token Girl]] of ''[[Bakugan
* Kisara from ''[[Kenichi:
* In ''[[
* Same with [[Super OCD|Chiri Kitsu]] of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* The flight suits worn by the ''[[
* Kaori Kanzaki, ''[[
* Iceman Hotty from ''[[
* ''[[
** She may wear essentially normal clothing, but one has to wonder how long it takes Setsuna to get her hair to look like that. Even after Chao [[Slipknot Ponytail|takes her hairband away]] her hair [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v28/c256/10.html still doesn't match!]
** Ku Fei gets this when she takes one glove [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c261/16.html off her party outfit].
* Éclair from ''[[
* [http://animewriter.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/im-ready-for-anything.jpg Kanata's] haircut in ''[[
* With the same haircut, Lain of ''[[
* ''[[Digimon]]''
** Angewomon. The asymmetry of one glove has a reason, though; it forms the bow of her [[The Archer|Celestial Arrow]] attack.
** Most Digimons' design in general become asymmetric as they evolve especially at the [[Evolutionary Levels|ultimate level]] e.g. Zudomon's fur on one hand and not the other. But is averted by MegaKabuterimon and Lilimon.
* ''[[
* Yoko from ''[[
* Nanael of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Lind from ''[[Ah
* Maximilian Pegasus from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (
* Manami of ''Glass Maiden''/''Crystal Blaze'' has two outfits where one sock comes up to her thigh and the other only to her knee.
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** Cyborg [[Superman]]'s perpetual exposed [[Terminator]] look.
** ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'': Plain Cyborg, with a metal plate on one side of his head.
** It is a comicbook tradition for characters who can take on the properties of various elements to strike poses changing body parts into as many different samples at once. Say, Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man. Ones like [[
** Deathstroke the Terminator with his mask split between black and orange. Underneath, one eye is cybernetic.
** ''[[
* [[Marvel Universe]]
** Psylocke's best known outfit with its varyingly placed strips. Though this can depend on who's drawing her.
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** Stryker has ''three'' cybernetic arms on one side of his body to go with his glowing, red, cybernetic eye.
* In fact, many comicbook characters with a tattoo or some other decoration on one side of their face came out of the '90s.
* ''[[
** Mazikeen has half her face simply missing. Whether this is cool or not is a matter of perspective. However, on Earth, she wears a half-mask to cover this up, and the intent is very much that people will think "oh, she's just a normal woman in a funky outfit."
** To say nothing of Delirium.
** It's eventually established that {{spoiler|fashion has nothing to do with it. When she finds her face "fixed" Mazikeen swears vengeance on the good Samaritan}}.
* Spider Jerusalem of ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has asymmetric [[Cool Shades]]
* ''[[Hellboy (
* Several characters in ''[[Strontium Dog]]''. Johnny has a big pad one one shoulder, to which is attached his blasterbelt that goes across his chest to his over hip. Wulf has the same arrangement, and in an early strip starts also wearing a Gronk's skin across the ''other'' shoulder. Middenface has a big tartan pad over one shoulder. Evans' mutation means that one of his arms is in the right place, but the other is attached directly to the side of his head.
* In the Dutch series ''Franka'' by Henk Kuijpers, former minor villain, now supporting character Uschi Undsoweiter ([[Gratuitous German]] for "and so on") always dresses and does her hair asymetrically, frequently by assembling her clothes from parts of two or more different sets. But then she is an artist who now works for fashion mogul Laura Lava.
* [[Nineties Anti
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* Luke Skywalker's single black glove in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', as a result of his prosthesis getting shot on Jabba's sail bark and him not having the time to repair/replace the burned-of synth skin.
* ''The Tall Blond Man with One black Shoe'' and its remake, ''[[The Man With One Red Shoe]]''.
* A sharp-eyed viewer will note that the [[Tron Lines]] of some of the characters in ''[[Tron
* One piece of Alex's attire in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
== Literature ==
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' stories, asymmetrical beards are cultivated by upper-class Wunderlanders as a fashion statement (specifically, the statement "I have the free time and money to cultivate this bit of elaborate grooming").
* In ''[[The Mote in
* High-ranking Seanchan servants in ''[[
* In ''Talon of the Silver Hawk'', in the ''[[Riftwar Cycle]]'', Tal spends a few pages mentally mocking high fashion in the kingdom of Roldem, which, at the moment, includes a jacket specially designed to be worn on one side and slung over the shoulder like a cape on the other. He, quite frankly, thinks it's ridiculous... but not half as ridiculous as some of the other things he's seen there, like a woman [[Fan Service|whose only upper body garment was a necklace so huge it very nearly kept her completely covered.]]
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]'': a character with a horrible burn scar on one arm consistently wins masquerade-ball costume competitions because while all the women's dresses are provocatively cut, hers always have one long sleeve, which the judges think [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolizes]] [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|"something."]]
* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]: Aayla Secura does the long sleeve/no sleeve version of the trope.
* [[
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
** ''[[Star Trek:
** ''[[Star Trek
*** Judging from General Martok, missing eyes seem to be the [[Badass]] asymmetry of choice.
*** ''Deep Space Nine'''s final season introduces the Breen ships, which use asymmetry in their design to look as alien as possible.
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** ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' is all about this as the show's premise but special mentioned goes to the Cyclone form, which has a gray muffler on the right shoulder.
** ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'': Ankh's shirt has one red sleeve on the arm where his [[Red Right Hand]] is.
* In an episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', Sabrina changes the color of one [[Alpha Bitch|Libby's]] knee-high socks from black to yellow in an attempt to embarrass her. Libby avoids embarrassment by turning mismatched socks into a fashion trend amongst [[Terrible Trio|her friends]].
* In ''[[
== Music ==
* Ziggy Stardust. Happens quite a bit with [[
* [[Queen
* [[
* The [
* Love front-man Arthur Lee was said to have invoked this trope in an attempt to get recognized in the Los Angeles scene of the 1960s, walking in with a different shoe on each foot and sunglasses which had different colors on each side.
* When Jack Casady auditioned for bass in [[
* Many of [[
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
** The Third Edition Player's Handbook uses asymmetrical outfits for the iconic characters representing the Paladin, the Ranger, and the Sorcerer.
** Agents of the Order of the Emerald Claw in ''[[
== Theater ==
* For Susan Hilferty, the costume designer in the Broadway musical ''[[Wicked (
== Toys ==
* Most of
* Mantax, the Toa Hordika, the Piraka, and two of the Toa Mahri, Matoro and Hewkii, from [[Bionicle]], had one arm shorter than the other. Lariska, a character not released as a set, had a mechanical arm as the result of punishment from The Shadowed One.
* Bionicle's successor, Hero Factory, seems to have this as one of its signature traits, especially in the early 2011 sets. [http://hf.biosector01.com/hf/images/6/63/Nitroblast.png Nitroblast] is the zenith of this trait, with Drilldozer a close second.
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== Video Games ==
* It's become so deeply associated with ''[[
* ''[[
** Nightmare/Siegfried reaches new heights of this in ''Soul Calibur 2''; one of his alternate costumes is his partially corrupted self, missing most of the armor but still having the giant monster-arm, one gold (pupiless) eye and one blue eye, and having a raised arc of flesh identical to the arm across his shoulders. Note that one arm is bigger than the other because that's the arm Soul Edge possessed, which is why it's different from the rest of his body. Ditto with the eye. It's not fashion, it's plot-related!
** Certain costumes from Talim and Xianghua include leggings of different lengths.
* ''[[
* [http://www.gamerdna.com/uimage/full/sheogorath-jpg.jpg Sheogorath], of ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV
** Similarly, in the previous game ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
* ''[[
** Dizzy has one white and one black wing.
** Also Venom's robe, Testament's coat and Slayer's [[Buffy
* Kalas from ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''. Born with only one (swan-like) wing, so his grandfather made him a mechanical one to go with it.
** Not to mention Savyna, who wears one thigh-high boot and one regular boot.
* Rita from ''[[
* Extended to ship designs in ''[[
* David Nassau, Marquis of Athlum wears a coat like this in ''[[
* The fifth patch for ''[[
* At least in ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces
* In all ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' games, Jak from wears a single plate of armor on his left shoulder. It presumably protects him from having his friend-turned-[[Mix
* The gunner armor in ''[[
* ''[[
** Allegretto also has one epaulet.
** Claves wears only one stocking (on her right leg), as well as sporting a claw-like gauntlet on her right arm.
* ''[[
** Nue Houjuu has her wings. Her right ones are red and look metallic, and her left ones are blue and look more like tails.
** Prior to her, Reiji Utsuho was rocking her control-rod-right-arm and concrete-encased foot.
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** Rose's outfit, which shows some leg on one side and [[Zettai Ryouiki]] on the other.
** There's also Dart's normal outfit which seems to have a bracer of some sort on his off-hand, presumably for combat purposes.
* ''[[
** Ezio Auditore da Firenze, protagonist of ''[[Assassin's Creed
** It's worth mentioning that capes like that were in-fashion at the time for people of Ezio's social standing. It's also sensible for someone who does a lot of sword-fighting with his right
** In ''Brotherhood'', Machiavelli's outermost garment is missing a right sleeve.
* Maeda Keiji from ''[[
* ''[[
* Dr. Steinman from ''[[
* ''[[
** Armour is asymmetric in the one way that actually makes sense. The left, or shield, side is heavier (more armour plates, bigger pauldron) to facilitate defense, and the right is lighter to increase mobility and make attacking easier but has a heavier gauntlet since the forearm would be vulnerable while striking.
** Morrigan's oufit is probably patched together from junk she found in her swamp, but you do have to wonder why she didn't even try to make her skirt an even length.
** Isabela in the second game has light armour on her left arm while her right arm is mostly bare.
** The Champion Armor for the Mage!PC has Hawke's right arm completely unarmored. [[Justified Trope|This allows for full motion for casting spells.]]
*
* ''[[
** The [http://wallpapers.latestscreens.com/makeThumb.php?dir=1024x768&game=pokemoncolosseum&file=pokemoncolosseum-01.jpg protagonist] of ''[[
** This even extends to many species, such as Absol, which has a horn jutting out of the right side of its head, and Sneasel, which has a feather growing instead of its left ear and fangs showing on one side. Some fans dislike the latter's evolution Weavile precisely because it loses the asymmetry.
* ''[[Video Game/Team Fortress|Team Fortress]]''
** ''[[
** As [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Respectless_Rubber_Glove one of the Pyro's hats] is a rubber glove much like the Engineer's, it's often joked that he stole the other glove, but that hat is also a right glove.
* ''[[
* Mad Moxxi from ''[[
* Realistic example in ''[[
* [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101026150231/dynastywarriors/images/thumb/e/eb/Baosanniang-dw7.jpg/520px-Baosanniang-dw7.jpg Bao Sanniang] in ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 7''.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts (
== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[
* Kevin, of ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', has one ear that flops down and one that remains vertical (he's a rabbit). A theory was given in the strip that it had to do with having one parent with each ear type. However, his sister Danielle does not have this oddity (both her ears are straight). It also varies as to which ear does which (explained by the cartoonist in the FAQ as being based on which looks better in that panel).
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** The Demimonde Semigoddess of ''[[
** ''[[
** Equius, Vriska, and Kanaya all have mismatched horns. Vriska also counts thanks to her robotic arm and [[Eyepatch of Power]].
* ''[[Last
** Daisy Archanis and her one bionic leg.
** And in bonus material (and at least one commission), Jigsaw has at least one outfit that's long-sleeved on one side... [[Vapor Wear|and a series of askew straps on the other.]] Points for color-coordination, though.
* ''[[Dan and
* ''[[
* Maxim, the [[Bishonen]] Jäger from ''[[
== Web Original ==
* Yang Xiao-Long's original outfit in ''[[RWBY]]'' included a diaphonous skirt-like wrap around her hips that was cut diagonally and hung mostly on her right, and stockings of different heights.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* Wilt, of ''[[
* Hallmark of fashionable ladies' eveningwear throughout the
* On another continent, Venger from ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (
* A number of [[
* The Snake Armour from the 200X version of ''[[He-Man and
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* ''[[
** The minor character the Mechanist has several marks in one eyebrow and [[High
** Towards the end, Aang changes up his robes and goes for the over-one-shoulder look, and even his belt is off to one side.
* Many of the fashions in ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'' are this way, especially for the Misfits. You can blame the '80s.
* Discord from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Grune from [[Thundercats 2011
* ''[[
* The Trishas from ''Rated A for Awesome'' are identical except for the fact that they're mirror images of each other. One has a single earring on her left ear and her hair parts to the right, while the other has a single earring on her right ear and her hair parts to the left.
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* Mounted combatants' armor often had asymmetrical pauldrons, which helped them brace lances. Whether or not this is fashionable is left as an exercise to the reader.
* Further, lots of styles where one uses different weapons in each hand (sword + shield for instance) would have the armor or protective elements take the weight and defense needs into account. For example, Greek hoplites would only wear a shin plate on the left shin, as that would be the one exposed to the enemy.
* [[High
* Many people have clothing of unusual cuts or asymmetrical patterns to hide physical deformities. Hairstyles can apply for facial (or back-of-the-neck) coverage. Of course, many don't bother.
* The European Medieval and early Renaissance periods made a whole fashion out of this, with asymmetrically colored clothes, for example tights where both trouser legs are of two (or more) different colors, a style called called ''mi-parti''.
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