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[[File:Fashionable..._Maybe..jpg|link=Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|frame|Well, at least his shoes match.]]
 
 
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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|hook hand]], a horn on one side of your head, or an [[One-Winged Angel|angel with one wing]]! And it doesn't have to be that complicated: both good and evil can enjoy the duality that [[Mismatched Eyes|heterochromia]] implies.
 
Not to be confused with [[One-Winged Angel]] (though the song that named the trope got its name from the fact that the character it describes features Fashionable Asymmetry, with seven wings, and thus one more on one side than on the other side).
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Both of the top-level angels from ''[[Angel Sanctuary (Manga)|Angel Sanctuary]]'', Alexiel and Rosiel, have ''three'' wings. This is explained in the manga, as being twins the 6 wings of angels their level would usually have were split evenly between them -- i.e., 3 wings each.
* Several of Sakura's outfits in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' have one short and one long stocking.
* Raphael in ''[[Tenshi Ni Narumon (Anime)|Tenshi Nini Narumon]]'' is a single-winged angel.
* Kei's Knight of Light outfit in the anime version of ''[[Prétear (Manga)|Prétear]]'' is asymmetrical beyond description.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Animeanime)|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.
* ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]''
** 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-Winged Angel|Quincy Final Form]], [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that the Quincy are depicted as monk-archers based largely upon eastern martial-artists who specialize in the bow and who often leave one side of their bodies completely bare to avoid getting clothing tangled in their bowstrings.
* Several of the Cloths in ''[[Saint Seiya (Manga)|Saint Seiya]]'', most notably the Aquila Cloth, whose upper body has an armored (left) and unarmored (right) side .
* Many characters from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', including the main casts have significant bits on their left side which range from minor things like earrings, combovers and tattoos to a [[Hook Hand]].
* ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]''
** 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}}.
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** 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 [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', featuring all the cast in fantasy outfits, shows Mikuru wearing one fishnet stocking and Haruhi wearing two fishnet stockings of two different lengths -- one that goes far enough up to disappear under her skirt and the other ending just below her knee. Haruhi's gloves are also different lengths.
* Mira, the [[Token Girl]] of ''[[Bakugan (Anime)|Bakugan: New Vestroia]]'', wears a [[Spy Catsuit]] that goes halfway past the knee on the left side and barely past the waist on the right. This explains a lot about why they usually show her from the right side when not showing her from the front.
* Kisara from ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple (Manga)|Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple]]'' wears jeans with one leg cut off. Maybe somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]], because her fighting style [[Extremity Extremist|revolves around high kicks]] that would probably split her jeans constantly... but the [[Fan Service|real reason]] is pretty obvious.
* In ''[[Soul Eater (Manga)|Soul Eater]]'', Death The Kid has a fetishistic preoccupation with symmetry, to the point of OCD, making his naturally asymmetrical hair (which he's stated he was unable to dye) all the funnier.
* Same with [[Super OCD|Chiri Kitsu]] of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei (Manga)-sensei|Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'', who has naturally curly hair, but straightens it and panics if it's off by a hair.
* The flight suits worn by the ''[[Simoun (Anime)|Simoun]]'' Sibylla feature one bare shoulder and a large off-center gem.
* Kaori Kanzaki, ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index (Anime)|To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'''s resident [[Hot Chick Withwith a Sword]], has a pair of jeans that go all the way down on the right side and stop just below her waist on the left side. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], though, because the spells she uses apparently require the asymmetry.
* Iceman Hotty from ''[[Basquash (Anime)|Basquash]]'' wears shirts and pants with sleeves and legs of different lengths and a glove on one hand. {{spoiler|The shirt and glove may be to hide his cybernetic left arm.}}
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
** 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 ''[[Kiddy Grade (Anime)|Kiddy Grade]]'' usually wears one legging. She also wears one cross-shaped earring.
* [http://animewriter.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/im-ready-for-anything.jpg Kanata's] haircut in ''[[Sora no Woto (Anime)|Sora no Woto]]''.
* With the same haircut, Lain of ''[[Serial Experiments Lain (Anime)|Serial Experiments Lain]]''.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Fairy Tail (Manga)|Fairy Tail]]'': Lucy's clothes are also pretty normal, but she ''mostly'' has that side-bun thing going on.
* Yoko from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has one normal fingerless glove and one elbow-length one.
* Nanael of ''[[QueensQueen's Blade (Anime)|Queens Blade]]'' has one full-sized wing and one half-sized one. This isn't commonplace for angels in that series, it's more an indicator she's [[The Ditz]].
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': Sayaka's [[Magical Girl]] outfit has a diagonal cut on her skirt. Her hair is also done in an assymetry, her hair longer on her right side, while her skirt is longer on the left side.
* ''[[Puella Magi Oriko Magica (Manga)|Puella Magi Oriko Magica]]'' has Kirika, who's regular outfit has very little that's symmetrical. Her [[Magical Girl]] outfit is mostly symmetrical, but picks up an [[Eyepatch of Power]].
* Lind from ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' has asymmetric hair which is longer on one side than it is on the other.
* Maximilian Pegasus from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Mangamanga)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', with the left side of his face covered by his hair, which hides ''another'' asymmetric fashion in the form of his Millennium Eye.
* 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 [[Metamorpho (Comic Book)|Metamorpho]] have it as their base look.
** Deathstroke the Terminator with his mask split between black and orange. Underneath, one eye is cybernetic.
** ''[[Batman (Franchise)|Batman]]'': Two-Face generally [[Idiosyncrazy|feeds his obsession]] by wearing a suit split in two down the middle. Mostly it's just different [[wikipedia:File:Batmanannual14.png|colours]] but some interpretations use a different take, like [[The Dark Knight|clean/burned]] or [[Batman Forever (Film)|normal/eye-hurting]].
* [[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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** 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]] -- a green rectangle on his right, and a red circle on his left. The machine that made them was stoned on mechadrugs.
* ''[[Hellboy (Comic Bookcomics)|Hellboy]]'': Hellboy's massive right hand of stone.
* 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-Hero|Magog]] from ''[[Kingdom Come (Comic Book)|Kingdom Come]]'' has a single shoulder pad, a scarred right eye, and a gold/metallic left arm. He was originally imagined as an unflattering pastiche of [[Rob Liefeld]] characters like [[Cable]] and [[Youngblood]], who were (in)famous for their hideously cluttered and asymetrical costumes. Surprisingly, artist Alex Ross ultimately decided that he rather liked Magog's design, and the character went on to [[Breakout Character|get his own series]].
 
 
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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 Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'' are deliberately non-symmetrical for no apparent purpose other than aesthetics. Quorra has both asymmetrical [[Tron Lines]] and an asymmetrical outfit.
* One piece of Alex's attire in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Filmfilm)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' is a set of fake lashes on one eye.
 
 
== 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 GodsGod's Eye (Literature)|The Mote in Gods Eye]]'', moties are described as being incredibly asymmetric. They have one large arm with a three-fingered "gripping hand" on one side and two smaller arms with five-fingered hands on the other for fine manipulation. The rest of their bodies are asymmetric to accomodate the design, including a much larger shoulder and no ear on the "gripping" side. ''The Gripping Hand'' is also the name of the sequel.
* High-ranking Seanchan servants in ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'' series shave the hair off half their heads, then braid the other half. This symbolizes their dual nature (lower-class people have full heads of hair; nobles have mohawks or shaven heads).
* 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.
* [[Pippi Longstocking (Literature)|Pippi Longstocking]] wears a pair of mismatched stockings.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' has several examples of this:
** ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|The Original Series]]''' episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" gave us the Cheron people, who are all painted white on one side and black on the other... and get into a genocidal civil war over which side they're painted on.
** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]''
*** 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 ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'', River wears a dress that has one very long, poofy sleeve on one side, and no sleeve ont he other. Its not made clear whether this is how the dress is supposed to look or if its a modification she made herself, but it looks pretty nifty.
 
 
== Music ==
* Ziggy Stardust. Happens quite a bit with [[David Bowie (Music)|David Bowie]]'s stage outfits from the period - striped unitard with one short leg and one long leg, anyone? Plus the pseudo-heterochromia. From getting punched in the eye.
* [[Queen (Music)|Freddy Mercury's]] black and white unitard.
* [[Michael Jackson (Music)|Michael Jackson]]'s glove.
* The [[wikipedia:Music Man StingRay|StingRay]]. While things like the Moderne and X-Plorer tried to invoke this, the [[CamelCase|StingRay]] was the only one of the offbeat designs to not change the shape of the guitar itself, and to use asymmetricaly as an intentional aesthetic choice.
* 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 [[Jefferson Airplane (Music)|Jefferson Airplane]], he was told he could get the job if he shaved off his facial hair. Moments later, he came back with only half of the side of his face shaved, saying he could use that half for performances.
* Many of [[Lady Gaga (Music)|Lady Gaga]]'s outfits invoke this trope.
 
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** 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 ''[[Eberron (Tabletop Game)|Eberron]]'' wear half-helms as part of their uniform that cover the right half of their faces, leaving only an eye-hole.
 
 
== Theater ==
* For Susan Hilferty, the costume designer in the Broadway musical ''[[Wicked (Theatretheatre)|Wicked]]'', this was one of the guiding principles for designing for the chorus, intended to give an otherworldly feel to the outfits of the Ozians. It helped win her a Tony Award for Best Costume Design.
 
 
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== Video Games ==
* It's become so deeply associated with ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' that fashionable asymmetry is now considered the norm with JRPG's. Their outfits tend to be so busy (see picture), you can't help but wonder how long it takes to get into or out of them. How does [[Too Many Belts|Lulu]] go to the bathroom? While people seem to think pretty much entirely [[Tetsuya Nomura]]'s fault, [[Yoshitaka Amano]]'s clothing was never big on symmetry either. People blame Nomura because his were the first designs to keep their details in the games. Despite ''Final Fantasy'' getting so much flak for this, it's something of a [[Dead Unicorn Trope]], as most ''Final Fantasy'' games have perfectly symmetrical clothing. Only ''FF10'' and ''FF7'' have much asymetry, and ''FF7'' doesn't have much, mostly armored bits and shields. ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', curiously, tends to avert this, as everyone's clothes are generally practical and symmetrical.
* ''[[Soul Series (Video Game)|Soul Series]]''
** 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.
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls (Video Game)|The Elder Scrolls]]''
* [http://www.gamerdna.com/uimage/full/sheogorath-jpg.jpg Sheogorath], of ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (Video Game)|The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion]]'', wears a crazy purple-and-yellow suit with twisting designs so complex it would take another page to describe. This fits in quite nicely with his role as God of Madness.
** Similarly, in the previous game ''[[The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind (Video Game)|Morrowind]]'', the god-king Vivec had gold skin on one side of his body and dark gray skin on the other. Also, you and some NPCs can wear gauntlets and pauldrons on only one side.
* ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]''
** Dizzy has one white and one black wing.
** Also Venom's robe, Testament's coat and Slayer's [[Buffy-Speak|handker-cape thing.]]
* 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 ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'' has one a long boot and white stocking on one leg, and a short boot with a red-and-yellow striped sock on the other leg. She even gets a costume where she wears a long black pantaloon-thing (held up by what appears to be half a garter belt) on one leg and merely a shin-high red stocking under normal black shoes on the other. The really asymmetrical part, though, is that her pantaloon is on the leg that's usually bare, and her bare leg is the leg that's usually covered by her long stocking. It's honestly kind of disorienting if you've been using her original costume all game.
* Extended to ship designs in ''[[Eve Online]]''. ''Very'' few of the ships are symmetrical, though the amount of asymmetry varies widely.
* David Nassau, Marquis of Athlum wears a coat like this in ''[[The Last Remnant (Video Game)|The Last Remnant]]''. One side is green while the other is red, representing the colours of Calapeleis, Athlum's sovereign city.
* The fifth patch for ''[[Spore (Video Game)|Spore]]'' has allowed asymmetrical creatures, costumes, and vehicles. Whether the creations are fashionable depends on the viewer, but it is likely [[Sturgeon's Law|90% of those creations won't be fashionable with anyone]].
* At least in ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces Saga (Video Game)|Jedi Outcast]]'', the big bad's apprentice Tavion ([http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Choketavion-JO.jpg seen here being force-choked by the protagonist]) wears some sort of leotard with one pant leg.
* 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-and-Match Critters|ottsel]] digging his claws into his flesh, though he wore it prior to having a passenger in the [[Parrot Pet Position|parrot pet position]]. Also almost always part of his outfit are a three-strap bag and uneven goggles.
* The gunner armor in ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]]''. Most have heavy armor on the left side, and little to no armor on the right side. Justified in that fighting a giant, fireball spitting wyvern, one would want to protect the side facing the monster, while the little armor on the other side justifies Gunner armor's universally lower defense.
* ''[[Eternal Sonata (Video Game)|Eternal Sonata]]''
** 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.
* ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]] Project''
** 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.
* ''[[Assassin's Creed (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]''
** Ezio Auditore da Firenze, protagonist of ''[[Assassin's Creed 2 (Video Game)II|Assassin's Creed 2]]'', has a comparatively subtle example with his assassin attire. Over his left shoulder he wears a half-cape, with the opposite shoulder not similarly covered. His left hand, meanwhile, is bare; his right is gloved. It goes even further than that; the bracer of the first blade is on his right arm, decorated with the assassin crest, and worn over the sleeve. The blade on his right arm is silver and with a finish that makes it look like a feather. The second hidden blade's bracer is concealed under the sleeve on his left arm, and the blade has a black finish.
** 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 hand -- it keeps the hand protected and the arm free.
** In ''Brotherhood'', Machiavelli's outermost garment is missing a right sleeve.
* Maeda Keiji from ''[[Sengoku Basara (Video Game)|Sengoku Basara]]'', who is rather eccentric to say the least, wears [http://media.photobucket.com/image/maeda%20keiji%20sengoku%20basara/Prince-Of-Wei/Basara%20Renderz/Keiji.png an almost completely asymmetrical outfit] that would make any ''Final Fantasy'' character proud.
* ''[[Fallout (Video Game)|Fallout]]''. One-sleeved leather jackets (Mad Max-style) seems to be the norm. When you finally do find a jacket with both sleeves still on, the game remarks that you might make a fashion statement with that one....
* Dr. Steinman from ''[[Bioshock (Video Game)|Bioshock]]'' takes this to [[Body Horror|a very unsettling extreme]] with his patients.
* ''[[Dragon Age (Video Game)|Dragon Age]]''
** 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.
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** The Champion Armor for the Mage!PC has Hawke's right arm completely unarmored. [[Justified Trope|This allows for full motion for casting spells.]]
* [http://press.jowood.com/Downloads/JoWooD/PC%20Games%20-%20German/38/Spellforce_Cover.jpg The cover art] of ''[[Spellforce]]''.
* ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]''
** The [http://wallpapers.latestscreens.com/makeThumb.php?dir=1024x768&game=pokemoncolosseum&file=pokemoncolosseum-01.jpg protagonist] of ''[[Pokémon Colosseum (Video Game)|Pokémon Colosseum]]''. Partly justified, as that is actually the machine used to snag shadow Pokémon on his arm.
** 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]]''
** ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'': Engineer wears one welding glove on his right hand, unless the player is using the Gunslinger, which replaces the glove with a mechanical hand. Sniper also wears just one fingerless glove on his left hand.
** 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.
* ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' largely averts this; almost every outfit in the game is symmetrical. The only major exceptions are Vyse and Drachma's [[Eyepatch of Power|eyepatches]], Drachma's ([[Power Fist|weaponized]]) [[Artificial Limbs|bionic arm]], and Aika's left-hand glove, which she uses to prevent her [[Improbable Weapon User|giant boomerang]] from taking her arm off when it returns.
* Mad Moxxi from ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'' is "ragdoll sexy" in her asymmetrical attire, most notably her stockings: one fishnet, one striped.
* Realistic example in ''[[Drakan (Video Game)|Drakan]]: Order of the Flame'' - Two of Rinn's armor, the Chainmail and the Plate Mail, had the left arm armored while the right (sword) arm was unprotected.
* [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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', Terra and Ventus each have a single armored pauldron on their left shoulder. In Terra's case, it also comes with bits of an armored gauntlet, and [[Fingerless Gloves]]. It's functional, though. Hitting hte pauldron allows them to summon the rest of their armor, which ''is'' symmetrical, so it's simply a matter of traveling light, as it were. Aqua has bits of armor on both arms, instead.
 
 
== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[Shuffle (Visual Novel)|SHUFFLE!]]'' has Asa, who has one long lock of hair on her left side which she ties together with a brown band.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', Pompey is a half-elf. This is represented by his having one pointed ear (and no ear visible on the other side, since elves are the only characters drawn with ears).
* 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 ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=480 Sir Eglamore's armor] has a single, very large shoulder plate, with an attached cape.
* ''[[MS Paint Adventures (Webcomic)|MS Paint Adventures]]''
** The Demimonde Semigoddess of ''[[Problem Sleuth (Webcomic)|Problem Sleuth]]''.
** ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'''s [http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/TwinArmageddons Sollux Captor]. He even has [[Mismatched Eyes]] to match his shades.
** Equius, Vriska, and Kanaya all have mismatched horns. Vriska also counts thanks to her robotic arm and [[Eyepatch of Power]].
* ''[[Last Res 0 rtRes0rt]]''
** 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 Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic)|Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures]]'': [http://www.missmab.com/Cast/regina.php Regina] has one skeletal wing which she hasn't regrown because she thinks it "looks cool"; [http://www.missmab.com/Demo/Leader05.php Clan Leader Taun]'s ceremonial armour covers her left arm completely, but leaves her right arm completely bare; [http://www.missmab.com/Demo/Leader14.php Quoar] and [http://www.missmab.com/Cast/abel.php Abel] are [[Mismatched Eyes|heterochromatic]], considered a good omen; and [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Abel_12.php Cindy] has a third eye [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|on the palm of one hand]], apparently as a result of her parents being exposed to too much magic.
* ''[[Our Little Adventure (Webcomic)|Our Little Adventure]]'' example: The uniforms for the followers of [[Path of Inspiration|Angelo's Kids]] look this way. Angelo himself wears a pimped out version that makes him look like a mashup of Super Dave, [[Michael Jackson]], and someone from [[Kingdom Hearts]].
* Maxim, the [[Bishonen]] Jäger from ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]]'', wears a glove and a spiked shoulderpad on one side.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': In the 2000s animated series, the Shredder's wrist-worn blades are on one hand only.
* Wilt, of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Animation)|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', has one wonky eye, and one arm waaaay shorter than the other. This is explained in the season four TV movie, and in the pilot he mentions it may freak people out.
* Hallmark of fashionable ladies' eveningwear throughout the Noughties -- from about 2000 to 2010 the red carpet showed gowns with some sort of asymmetric neckline- draped over one shoulder, one diagonal strap, one sleeve, etc.. The 2011 Oscars were the first in years not to feature this heavily, but the styles in stores still have this trend going strong.
* On another continent, Venger from ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Animationanimation)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has the one-horn thing going.
* A number of [[Transformers (Franchise)|Transformers]] have transformations that give them asymmetrical robot modes, but some are asymmetrical just to be stylish even though their transformation does nothing to prevent symmetry, including all of the Transmetals 2 from ''Transformers: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]''.
* The Snake Armour from the 200X version of ''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of Thethe Universe]]'', though "Fashionable" is arguable; it looked daft. Given it was armour, one has to wonder why half of it appears to be missing...
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' villain Slade wears a mask that is black on one side and orange on the other, and has only one eye (because Slade himself is missing an eye, in an incident only detailed in the comics.)
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
** The minor character the Mechanist has several marks in one eyebrow and [[High-Class Glass]] on the other, and Jet has a larger piece of armor on one shoulder than the other.
** 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 (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' features body parts that can be identified as being from many different animals, all to go along with his general theme of chaos and, you guessed it, [[Meaningful Name|discord.]]
* Grune from [[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|both]] ''[[Thundercats (Animation)|Thundercats]]'' series is an [[Catfolk|anthropomorphic saber toothed cat]] with only one fang.
* ''[[Code Lyoko (Animation)|Code Lyoko]]'': Yumi's [[Digital Avatar|Lyoko avatar]] in season 4 is a bit asymmetrical, with a shorter sleeve on one side, a buckler-like bracer, one stocking different from the other, and sakura petals on her thigh.
* 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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