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{{quote|''"It was a mermaid. She was beautiful. Hair covering her breasts... every fucking time...."''
|'''Rhys Darby'''}}
A woman is topless or fully naked, and the writers don't want to (or can't) stick an [[Scenery Censor|object into the scene to cover her up]]. Fortunately, her hair is ''just'' long and thick enough to cover what needs covered and preserve her modesty.
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A form of [[Scenery Censor]]. Potential source of [[Fetish Fuel]]. Related to the [[Theiss Titillation Theory]] (after all, what will happen if she turns her head just a little, or the breeze just happens to pick up...?)
Named for [
The rare male examples usually include a beard long enough to cover the naughty bits, and generally involve either old hermits or castaways.
Not to be confused with [[Peek
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516222226/http://www.northwestern.edu/nucuisine/images/newsletter/Starbucks-logo.gif The woman on the Starbucks logo], depending on how you look at it. The logo is based on a 15th century Norse woodcut of a siren, and [http://brandautopsy.typepad.com/brandautopsy/2005/06/the_evolution_o.html hasn't always been so SFW.] The Pike Place Roast bags have the original logo.
* The logo for Godiva Chocolatier shows a nude woman riding a horse, with one arm tucked across her chest and strands of hair falling down the other side of her chest and covering her crotch.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKAW96N-Vms This banned commercial] featuring a gay Adam with a straight Eve has one. Somewhat subverted, because at one point, you could see one of her nipples.
* Then there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHCvO5QOWtE this French ad] for a body cream (along with [[Scenery Censor]]).
* Several celebrities who have posed naked in PETA's anti-fur ads have done this.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Inuyasha]]''
** Kagome in an early [[Hot Springs Episode|bathing scene]].
** Kikyo soon after her resurrection. Not so much in the manga, though...
* This is a trait of any Ken Akamatsu manga (''[[
* Happens on and off in ''[[Ranma
* A [http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/AthenAltena/32f88ccd0b3f9abcaba7729b5251fd4a.jpg promotional image] (
* Holo from ''[[
* Ryoko of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi Muyo]]'' does this quite often when depicted in the bath. Every so often, they'd actually show her chest completely, and she [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|just wouldn't have nipples]]. Ryoko's hair isn't even all that long, especially compared to some other characters in ''Tenchi Muyo!'', but she has rather conveniently-placed long sidelocks that fall right on top of her breasts.
** Averted in the DVD version of the ''Tenchi Muyo!'' OVA, in which Ryoko's nipples are indeed visible in scenes in which she is naked.
* ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' makes full use of this, with the amazing frequency the girls in its cast have to get naked. These scenes were dialed back (dialed up?) in the tankobon, as well as the manga's [[Hotter and Sexier|relaunch]] ''To Love Ru Darkness''.
* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' does it with ''rays of moonlight''. Also with actual hair in the anime.
* Chi from ''[[Chobits]]'' has Godiva Hair shortly after her activation.
* In the ''[[AIR]]'' OVA, Uraha actually advises Kanna to use this.
* While ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'''s regular series had very little fanservice, being meant for kids, apparently someone's mind changed when it came time to make the OVA conclusion, and both Mikoto and Swan are depicted nude with Godiva Hair at least once each. There's a lot more [[Gainaxing]] and clothing damage, as well.
* The [[Catgirl|Puma Sisters]] of ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'' make deliberate use of their long manes of hair to better entice watchers during their [[Striptease]] in OVA 1.
* Melona in ''[[Queen's Blade]]'' unusually combines this with [[Prehensile Hair]]. While her hair is covering up her naughty bits, it also has a pair of hands on the end, meaning she's groping herself. Weird.
* Most long-haired female characters in ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'', but especially [[Tsundere|Kyoko]], [[Hello, Nurse!|Ritsuko-sensei]], and [[Our Mermaids Are Different|Hayame]]. Notably, [[An Ice Person|Yukime]] has short hair, but for very thin strands that run down her temples and are ''just barely enough'' to cover the [[Nippled and Dimed|interesting parts]].
* Lafiel pulls this in one episode of ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'' during her [[Shower Scene|Bath Scene]]. When her hair's not strategically covering what needs to be covered, it's either camera angles or reflections of light.
* Yoko Littner from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' does this in the movie, in a suitably epic battle against Adiane the Elegant. Hint? The hair's not just for decoration.
* In The "Blues Notes Blues" chapters of ''[[Letter Bee]]'', {{spoiler|Niche's sister}} does this with a twist. At Lag's request to "put some pants on", she [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620113126/http://www.onemanga.com/Tegami_Bachi/24/07/ wraps her hair around her bikini style.]
* In the ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' manga, Rin's nipple is just ''barely'' covered by a thin strand of hair.
* Miaka and Soi have Godiva Hair in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', and in the former's case, we've also got Godiva Vines. Yui, whose hair is much shorter than the other two, is less lucky.
* Used a lot in ''[[Shattered Angels]]''. Since female characters are often naked in the anime and seem incapable of bathing themselves (they require another naked female to bathe them), their front fringes serve the useful purpose of barely covering their nipples.
* Yuty in ''[[
* Brita in ''[[Darker
* Bluebell from ''[[
* Used in the anime adaptation of ''[[Hans Christian Andersen
* Similarly used in ''[[Mahou no Mako
* The girl whose tears turn into a crimson pearl in ''[[
* One "How to Draw Manga" book called ''Girl's Life Illustration File'' has a section about tactfully rendering nudes. This is given as an option.
* ''[[One Piece]]'',
** When [[Hot Amazon|Boa Hancock]] first meets Luffy, she spends a lot of time [[Naked First Impression|naked]] or topless for [[Embarrassing Tattoo|plot-related reasons]], causing her to be covered up like this pretty much whenever her back isn't turned. She does it again in the Cidre Guild Arc, this time to distract the eponymous guild so Luffy can clobber them.
** Robin in the Wano Country Arc, when she [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vcS1iSiBNk turns herself into a giant demon]; done far more for terror than for fanservice.
* Eureka's long hair in the ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' movie serves this purpose really well for her.
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'''s [[Ms. Fanservice|Sheryl Nome]] has this in a couple of her scenes. Despite the conveniently placed hair, Alto still gets a good slap.
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'' takes this to rather goofy extremes, since Panty uses her underwear as a weapon; she fights several battles while bottomless, and somehow her hair manages to keep everything censored.
* [[Leijiverse|Leiji Matsumoto]] uses this several times across various works, and he even admitted that the origin of the [[Rapunzel Hair]] that eventually became his [[Signature Style]] when drawing women was initially to cover up nudity.
* Cana and Erza from ''[[
* Played for [[Nightmare Fuel]] in episode 24 of ''[[
* Gena in Ivan's [[Mind Rape|vision]] in ''[[Priest (
* Taken to an absurd level in the ''[[
* In ''[[
==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: The famous 1486 painting ''The Birth of Venus'' is a strong early candidate for this trope, with the goddess Venus using her long hair to cover her lower self.
* Pretty much every depiction of Eve in the past couple centuries.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[X-Men]]'''s Storm, not caring for most people's [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|silly nudity taboo]], is frequently hair-clad (but more frequently [[Censor Steam|wind effect-clad]].)
* Timmain in ''[[Elf Quest]]'' qualifies, when she's not being a wolf. From time to time, so does her polar counterpart Winnowill.
* In the first issue of ''Secret Invasion'', Reed Richards is performing an autopsy on the Skrull who'd posed as Elektra. An overhead shot gives a full view of her body, with a convenient light blocking her crotch and Godiva Hair over her breasts.
* Parodied and lampshaded in the French comic book ''Trolls de Troy'' (a spin-off of ''[[Lanfeust]]''): the (human) heroine is once changed by magic into a (nude) mermaid; the villain points out that she doesn't need any [[Seashell Bra]], since it is a "genetic trait" of mermaids' hair to automatically cover their breasts. And it is actually always the case -- ''even when she's hanging upside-down''.
* Also lampshaded somewhat in ''Superman/Batman'': one of The Maximums (an [[The Ultimates|Ultimates]] parody) that [[The Batman
* The Guardian of Keys in ''[[
* Referenced in ''[[
* Venus from ''[[
* Medusa of the Inhuman Royal Family does this. A lot. She has [[Justified Trope|really, really long prehensile hair]].
* One issue of ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' opens with Diana waking up to Ares paying her a visit in her bedroom (no, not like that), and because Diana apparently sleeps au natural she only has
* [[
* ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'': Starfire uses this every so often, particularly when Dick Grayson discovers her in the shower.
* Done in an issue of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|New Avengers]]'' as Wolverine corners Jessica Drew in the shower.
* [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Lori_Lemaris_%28Earth-One%29 Lori Lemaris], one of [[
* ''[[Astro City]]'': Occurs with the Infidel's female homunculi.
* Knockout of the ''[[Secret Six]]'' once emerged from a shower completely naked, with only with a few strands of hairs covering her nipples and groin.
== [[Film]] ==
* The goddess Hecate, in the ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' animated film ''Blood and Iron''.
* This happens in ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'' after the Unicorn turns into Princess Amalthea.
* ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'': One of the mermaids who live at Mermaid's Lagoon (more specifically, the redhaired one who is bathing at the start of the sequence the mermaids show up in) sports this. The others have either [[Seashell Bra|seashell]] or starfish bras, and there's one who uses a white flower necklace to cover her chest.
* ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' was going to use this, and did use it through the storyboarding and the initial pencil tests. It was only abandoned when the colour tests showed the concept to be unworkable without redesigning almost every underwater shot. [[Seashell Bra]] were used instead.
* ''[[Treasure of Swamp Castle]]'': Szaffi bathing.
* [[Lindsay Lohan]] after she wakes up nude (in a church!) in ''[[Machete]]''.
* ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' has a scene with the above-average looking psychic/fortune-teller/seer popping up out of a pool of water in a Godiva Hair moment.
* Mermaids are often depicted with
*
* [[Brooke Shields]]' hair was apparently glued to her breasts during some scenes of the 1980 film ''[[The Blue Lagoon]]'' in order to satisfy censors.
* In ''[[Robin Hood
* In ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]'', Elena is left clad in pajama bottoms and hair when [[Zorro]] [[Clothing Damage|slices her nightshirt off]].
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Alyda]] in the ''The Unnamable II'' spends a good portion of the film like this due to the fact that she hates/fears clothing. It's ''awesome''.
* Valentina from ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'', played by Lily Cole ([http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2692647168/nm2178959
* Megan Fox in ''[[
* Naturally, the 1955 film ''Lady Godiva of Coventry'' features this: Maureen O'Hara as the eponymous noblewoman
* Syrena and some of the other mermaids in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean
* In ''[[Space Mutiny]]'', one of the [[Bridge Bunnies]] has such long hair and such a skimpy uniform that Mike and the Bots immediately assume she's nude.
* [[Not Safe for Work|Subverted]] [[Nightmare Fuel|horribly]] in ''[[From Dusk
* In ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', when one of the main characters is travelling through a rather rowdy festival and notices that a number of women attempting this don't have long enough hair to pull this off. We ([[Literature|obviously]]) don't get to see anything.
* In [[H. Rider Haggard]]'s ''[[She]]'', She's hair is long enough and thick enough that it doesn't just cover her nipples, it covers everything. She fastens a belt around her hair and wears it like a dress.
* Marlowe remarks upon a stained glass window featuring a woman with long and convenient hair in ''[[The Big Sleep (Literature)|The Big Sleep]]'' by [[Raymond Chandler]].
* It also features in a photography session in Andy Looney's ''The Empty City''. Chapter 95, to be precise: [http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/EmptyCity/chapter95.html link here].
* [[
** The famous statue in Copenhagen, which is one of the city's main tourist attractions, noticeably does not. She has her hair in a braid on her back.
* Played straight and made into a pun all at the same time in the ''[[
* Appears briefly in ''The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose'' by Mary Hooper. Eliza is dressed as a mermaid for the Midsummer Fair in London and wears her hair like this.
* Subverted in ''[[
* Played straight in ''[[Where's Wally
* ''[[ESPN]] the Magazine'' recently{{when}} ran a Body Issue featuring athletes of both genders in nothing or almost nothing along with articles on what makes some people genetically inclined to be successful athletes. Not surprisingly, two of the female athletes had this.
* Cindy Margolis often used this.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In the episode "The [[Jersey Devil]]" of ''[[The X-Files]]'', Claire Stansfield (who played a Neanderthal woman) was required to have her hair tied over her breasts in many shots to keep the [[FOX]] censors happy.
* [[media:sarahconnorchronicles-cameron1.jpg|This promotional image]] for ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.
* Both Lady Godiva and {{spoiler|Phoebe}} in ''[[
* An early David Copperfield magic special included a trick in which he removed a bikini top from a poster of Loni Anderson. Loni (on stage) then removed the hair clips from her poster, causing a Godiva effect on the poster.
* ''[[
* Apparently averted in ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'', when Gerri asks what did they do for village fête the year before her arrival in the village...
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'''Gerri:''' What, Lady Godiva in a body-stocking?
'''Frank:''' No! She was
'''Gerri:''' Wow!
'''{{spoiler|Cropley}}:''' Well, I didn't have time to grow my hair long enough, you see... }}
* The first elimination challenge of season three of ''Shear Genius'' was ALL about this trope.
* Used in several photo shoots on ''[[
== [[Music
* The music video for [[
* Used in the [[
* A dancer in Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" seems to only be covered by her hair.
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
* The trope is named for Lady Godiva, the medieval English noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked on a white horse through Coventry, England, to get rid of the unfair taxes posed by her family. Many paintings of her portray her with very long hair, covering her naughty bits as per the trope. But the paintings made in medieval times portray her with more graphic nudity and normal, shoulder-length hair, with the Godiva Hair paintings not coming around until centuries later. So the idea that Lady Godiva really was covered in this way is clearly a product of [[Bowdlerize|Bowdlerization]]. Some scholars have speculated that there might have been some confusion in the telling of the tale—that the original story might have said she went out ''without her clothes'', that is, dressed in a shift like a religious penitent, rather than ''naked'' (which would not make much sense as a protest). On the other hand, there's little historical evidence to support the story having happened at all, naked or not.
* Many depictions of the Biblical figure Eve, particularly in illustrated childrens' Bibles, use this.
* Also in depictions of Saints; Mary Magdalene is sometimes shown nude with Godiva Hair.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The cover of ''[[FATAL]]'' has this for just the boobs of the random slave-woman on the cover. If you ''saw'' said cover and didn't come to a few conclusions about this game's attitude towards women, you have no-one to blame but yourself.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** In 2nd Edition, the illustration of the Medusa in the ''Monster Manual'' uses her snake-hair to cover her chest.
** Most depictions of Eilistraee - a goddess worshipped by good-aligned drow - depict her as naked (as she embodies freedom and generosity) and the SFW depictions employ this Trope, [[Scenery Censor]]s, or both.
==
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405101237/http://micechat.com/forums/disneyland-resort/96720-redheaded-pirate-painting-disneyland.html#post2808525 bar painting of a pirate lass] in "Pirates of the Caribbean" at Disneyland is topless with just a few wisps of Godiva Hair.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Great Fairy in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]''. Oddly, when someone hacked into the game to lift the hair, they found she actually had nipples, or at least appeared to.
* Nevan in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3''. It must be glued to her nipples.
* The Rusalka in ''[[Quest for Glory]] IV''—even teasing the players when a lock of her hair is needed as one of the steps to free her. Naturally, it apparently comes from the back of her head. She does make a crack about how she would look with [[Fetish Fuel|short hair]].
* In ''[[Riviera: The Promised Land]]'', there's a pair of bath scenes that use Godiva Hair to cover up female characters—at least, those that have enough hair. The ones that don't are covered up in other strategic ways.
* Eve in ''[[Painkiller]]''. Her hair still does this, even after her assets are covered up in the expansion. When the camera is at the right angle, this trope fails to achieve its goal.
* {{spoiler|Jacqli/Mir}}'s {{spoiler|Miros}} costume in ''[[Ar
* ''[[
* A good number of female demons/Personae in the ''[[
* In the intro movie of ''[[Video Game]]/Cupid'', Venus appears with
* The Lady of the Forest in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'' appears naked with
* Felicia from ''[[
* Therazane of ''[[
* The dryad Morenn in the American release of ''[[
* The Japanese and European versions of ''Robo Aleste'' have this in the cutscene with Astaros bathing.
* Quelaag, one of the bosses from ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_885.php This] ''[[Dan and
* ''[[
** Aphrodite, in the [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0274.html Snarl's backstory].
** Then Haley [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0752.html couldn't resist]....
* [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20070322.html This strip] of ''[[
* Averted by Lady Godiva herself, in [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/danmazur/palindramas/series.php?view=archive&chapter=35039 this strip] of ''[[
* Kili of ''[[
* Perhaps never more blatantly done than in [https://web.archive.org/web/20171008062207/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7060 this] ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Living
* ''[[Too Much Information (
* Lauren from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183412/http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix/ Jix]'' had Godiva Hair when she changed back to human from Ambis (since Ambis don't wear clothes normally).
* When Erin from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130719023505/http://www.drunkduck.com/Dragon_City/ Dragon City]'' was temporarily changed into human from dragon, she had hair covering her nipples since female dragons don't wear clothes.
* An early ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Combined with [[Censor Steam]] and [[Speech Bubble Censoring]] in [http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Crossoverkill/5367110/ this shower scene] from ''[[
* Miho of ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used (and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]) in ''[[Family Guy]]'', providing us with this quote:
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Oh my God! She's got hair growing out of her boobs and up to her head!}}
* And on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Marge is Eve in a dream sequence. And whenever she's showering.
* This trope let ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' keep its TV-Y7 rating while showing Katara bathing. That and [[Scenery Censor|staying mostly underwater]].
* Used by, of all women, Madam Foster of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.
* In the ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: A.R.C.T.I.C.", after the KND are hit by a "[[The Nudifier|Nude Torpedo]]", Numbuh Three manages to cover herself ''completely'' with her long hair, like a cape.
* One episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' had Hank and Peggy visiting a nude campsite where they met two female nudists. One of which had long, straight brown hair that conveniently covered her breasts.
* Apple Bloom's sculpture from "The Cutie Pox" episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' is basically a pony version of "Birth of Venus" (see above) and uses both Godiva mane AND Godiva tail, as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20120916011814/http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111114025919/mlp/images/8/8e/Apple_Bloom_Statue.png here].
* ''[[Disenchantment]]'':
** Oona; her floor-length locks are so long, they not only cover her breasts in one scene, they cover her behind in another.
** [[Innocent Fanservice Girl| Ursula]], a forest selkie; Mora and most other mermaids in the series have this too.
** {{spoiler|Bean does this too in the final episode, [[Earn Your Happy Ending| after she and Mora elope to a tropical paradise]].}}
==
* Lucy Pinder, former [[Page Three Stunna]] and still "steaming hot" nude model, started the recent{{when}} "Hairkini" trend in England, with women covering up their nips with long, long hair.
* Ayumi Hamasaki (the current page image) had a CD poster of her with Godiva Hair.
* Some women who are growing their hair out count attaining the ability to do Godiva Hair as a milestone in hair growth. No word on whether or not they do it in public, though.
== Male variant ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[The Vision of Escaflowne]]'': In the anime, when emperor Dornkirk [[Fan Disservice|gets out of his machine naked]], the only thing leaving him some modesty is his massive beard. Averted in the manga when he gets an energist body, where his beard barely reaches his chest. However, we are treated to heavily shaded [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]].
===
* Sometimes Mr. Natural walks around naked, except his beard covers up the rude bits -- [[Fan Disservice|but not the back]].
* Also seen in one album of the [[Franco
=== [[Film]] ===
* The hermit who's taken a vow of silence (played by Terry Jones) in ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''. Like Mr. Natural mentioned above, it only covers his front.
===
* [[Shel Silverstein]] once wrote a poem about a long-bearded nudist who takes advantage of this trope. The illustration is very much ''not'' fanservice.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Adventure Time]]''
** The Ice King has once an [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]. Thankfully, his beard is inexplicably longer during that scene.
** The Naked Wizard in "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain" and "Wizard Battle" also has his torso covered by his beard.
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